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But that's not exactly what happened here. I'm totally with you on mobilizing your users to affect change, but this was asking for hush money instead of enabling Apollo to continue operating?


It wasn’t asking for hush money. The developer was asking to be acquired. It’s clear from the audio this wasn’t intended to be hush money.


“If you move to kill my business (instead of offering a reasonable exit i.e., acquiring it) I will deploy my consumer goodwill against you.”


Which is basically just boring normal business leverage.

"My customers are more loyal to my portal to your platform than your platform. You're literally putting me out of business so you can buy my app and keep running to keep those users for a price.




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