• OR3X@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Exactly what I came here to say. I had purchased Sync Ultra (or whatever it was called) in the reddit app and was really happy with the experience. First thing I went to do upon installing the new one was go to purchase again and was really disappointed to see a monthly subscription and no one-time purchases option. Then I was even more disappointed to see ads in the feed. I mean, I get why the developer went this route, but it really sucks. I don’t want another running subscription to think about. I have enough of those as it is.

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      1 year ago

      I might be mistaken, but I don’t think Sync Ultra is the same thing as the ad-free sync premium. Sync Ultra is a subscription because it adds functionality that requires cloud resources, not just removes ads.

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          1 year ago
          • Ad free
          • Cloud backup
          • Highlight users
          • Tag users
          • Translate text
          • Select text from images
          • Push notifications
          • Saved folders
          • Import / export subscriptions

          Source: The sync ultra description from in-app

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              1 year ago

              It all depends on how you implement it. He describes the text from images as using machine learning, which implies using an external API to do that translation.

              Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.

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                1 year ago

                which implies using an external API to do that translation

                It doesn’t. You can have local models.

                Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.

                Yes, it doesn’t have to be the author’s storage. Many, many apps implement it as adding the data to your Google Drive / Dropbox / whatever.

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                  1 year ago

                  You can have local models, but the vast majority of people are going to farm that out to a 3rd party provider via API calls because it’s the easiest thing to do.

                  Remember I said “It all depends on how you implement it”.

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      1 year ago

      Alternatively, Sync had so many updates that paying for Ultra once so many years ago felt like I stole it. It’s like $17 a year? I could do that easily to support the dev.