First, no it is not 3$. Apple takes a 30% cut, and requires a yearly fee to keep the app on the store. There is also a separate server cost, and a cost associated with paying an engineer. The actual cost is 5 dollars.
Second, there is only one single month to make all changes. Pricing was announced only 30 days prior.
That means payment setup, subscription changes, app update and payment approval requests, etc all need to happen within 30days. This is literally impossible.
Third, there are people who have paid a for a yearly subscription. (10$ total) Those funds either need to be refunded in it's entirety, or be allowed to run out first. Both will not occur within 30 days. That is literally impossible for apollo dev to do. That's just an issue of how refunding works and timelines.
If it is the latter, the dev will be incurring ~50,000 usd in costs every month. This is impossible to sustain.
Either way, there are app store rules that must be followed first. Reddit's timeline is incompatible with them.
And finally, regardless of API costs! reddit has on multiple occasions, defamed Apollo dev. Why would he continue working with a company that makes false blackmail accusations, then doubles down after evidence is provided?
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...