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Oh Apollo was apple only? Strange it gets so much attention - who uses Apple anymore, what a racket
To be frank, Apollo is the best Reddit has ever been for me, period. Apollo was the Reddit app for iOS. It was even so ubiquitous that it earned praise from the folks high up in the Apple food chain, and getting directly named in their recent event.
The guy behind the whole project was previously an intern at Apple, and wanted to make something that "felt like it was created by Apple," and damn did he succeed. I spent a pretty penny supporting that project when I had an iPhone, and I continued to throw a little money that way once I finally got away from Apple. I'd have bought it all over again if it ever came to Android. To be clear, the app was free and ad-free with optional paid tiers for extra features or just to support the dev. Absolutely incredible work.
When I came to Android, nothing ever quite replaced Apollo. Not that there's anything wrong with the plentiful other third party apps, Apollo was just... That good, IMO. Sad to hear he won't be pivoting toward supporting an alternative, like Lemmy, but I understand why.
I don't entirely agree. I have an iPad with Apollo and an Android with RiF and I've always liked RiF much more. Of course they're both magnitudes better than the official garbage app. Just a matter of personal taste, I guess.
Unfortunately, there isn't really a proper iPad version of Apollo. It was on the dev's to-do list but obviously he's never going to get round to it now, which is a real shame. The scaled-up iPhone version you do get on iPad is still probably the best iPad version of reddit though, not that there's a great deal of competition. It's not the best way to experience Apollo though.
oh, I didn't know it's different than the iPhone's!
My experience exactly. I’m not an apple fan boy and have used several android reddit apps, but Apollo was another tier.
I intentionally switched to an iPhone this year, haha. Got fed up enough with my Pixel that I said fuck it and moved. It’s not as big a difference as I was expecting it to be.