Sorry, to clarify, I just bought Alien Blue in the last six months and I'm worried that I might have to buy it again after having already bought the pro version of another reddit app only to find that it had been removed. Hopefully, as a semi-official app, this will be the last time I'll have to buy a reddit client (and it had occurred to me that I might develop my own app to meet my needs and provide better support and service).
Maybe my comment could provide reddit with feedback that:
1. They could have done this much earlier with an official app that I would have been happy to purchase
2. According to the article "Our whole philosphy has been to give our users choice. We’ve got the reddit AMA app, and alienblue coming out… but we really want users to use whatever they want" ... This bit me, so take that as feedback.
I like Alien Blue and I feel that this move is a positive, someone is finally providing a means for someone to develop and maintain a stable mobile interface to reddit.
So, if you disagree, please respond instead of just down voting.
But you don't have to buy anything? You can just download alien blue and get the pro upgrade for free. And you're not being downvoted by people who love iAlien, just by people who don't think you're adding much to the conversation.
> But you don't have to buy anything? You can just download alien blue and get the pro upgrade for free.
Yes, it's a good thing I pay attention to HN to make sure I get that free "upgrade", right? What about everyone else who doesn't pay attention to HN or tech crunch? That isn't necessarily an issue for reddit as much as it's an issue for Apple, but does everyone realize that?
> And you're not being downvoted by people who love iAlien, just by people who don't think you're adding much to the conversation.
Oh really? This is a quote from my original comment:
> Alien Blue is a good app so I'm happy for Jase the developer and I forget why I originally chose iAlien over Alien Blue now, but hopefully we get some good advancements in the mobile interface which is my primary means of accessing reddit.
I mean, my previous experience with reddit mobile sucked (the experience I shared) and I'm admitting that this is acquisition is a good thing. But somehow my anecdote about how it sucked before and this seems to be a step in the right direction (admittedly I didn't frame it explicitly that way, I did have a minimal expectation that it would be accepted that way) and is a good thing.
But somehow me trying to start a discussion prompts downvotes while superficial "rah rah" comments get upvotes is more positive than my message. Welcome to /.
