• Ertebolle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Along with everything else wrong with this: your icon is literally your brand, and you want your branding to be flawless + everywhere.

    This would be like Nike putting an ugly pixelated version of their logo on cheaper sneakers to encourage you to buy more expensive ones; whatever pocket change they made from upgraders would be dwarfed by the damage it would do to their trademark.

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      This. This is what most baffling. Why hide your main icon, your BRAND, behind a paywall? It is simply idiotic. They are really desperate for cash.

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        OUR APP ICON WILL LOOK SHITTY UNLESS YOU PAY US MORE! HAHAHA!

        I seriously don’t understand how they think this will increase sales.

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          Teenagers and poor students love paying for things, right? Right?

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      The only thing I can come up with is when reddit was shitting the bed most egregiously, all of the news outlets were showing the app icon in images/thumbnails. Perhaps they wanted to distance a bit from the bad publicity?

      Not that having a Doge button is any kind of brand recognition. I’d argue it’s juvenile for such a “grown up company”, or whatever Spez said about adult business, hehe.