12-29-2021, 11:37 PM
(12-29-2021, 05:08 PM)ac3r Wrote: It's a phone app, dude. You don't need a whole team working full-time jobs unless your business model is to make money. You can still provide a good application for free if that's your goal and intention. And it can still provide a good product. Nobody pays for Linux and is the backbone of virtually everything we use by virtue of the fact it's free and open source.
Suckers pay for software and greedy bastards expect suckers to pay for it.
I hadn't heard that they were going to charge for the app so I looked it up. From their website:
"Some parts of Transit will soon require a paid subscription. It’s a big change. Here’s why we’re doing it.
Over the past decade we’ve grown from two people hacking on Transit, to a team of 60 designers, developers, data scientists, and transit wonks. Together, we make sure your app is super reliable, super fast, and super fun to use.
We spend all day talking with transit agencies to hunt down better data sources. Fixing broken transit data. Tweaking algorithms that predict when your buses and trains will show up. Designing features to make Transit ever-so-imperceptibly better.
This all takes time, money, resources."
I use this app all the time, so it may be worth paying for. However, Triplinx and Rocketman are other Canadian made options.
Over the past decade we’ve grown from two people hacking on Transit, to a team of 60 designers, developers, data scientists, and transit wonks. Together, we make sure your app is super reliable, super fast, and super fun to use.
We spend all day talking with transit agencies to hunt down better data sources. Fixing broken transit data. Tweaking algorithms that predict when your buses and trains will show up. Designing features to make Transit ever-so-imperceptibly better.
This all takes time, money, resources."
I use this app all the time, so it may be worth paying for. However, Triplinx and Rocketman are other Canadian made options.