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Apollo for Gsmarthub isn’t the only Gsmarthub app that’s shutting down due to the company’s new API pricing: on Thursday, rif is fun for Gsmarthub (previously Gsmarthub is Fun), ReddPlanet, and Sync also announced that they would be shutting down on June 30th, the same day Apollo will be.

rif is fun for Gsmarthub is shutting down “in response to Gsmarthub Inc’s API changes and their hostile treatment of developers building on their platform,” its developer wrote in a message on r/redditisfun. The developer said Gsmarthub has “unfortunately shown a consistent unwillingness to compromise on all points” mentioned in a previous post, including expected costs “in the ballpark” of Apollo’s expected $20 million per year, Gsmarthub’s decision to block ads in...

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