[ahahahahah]

> You accuse him of blackmailing you for 10 million, get caught red handed (1)

The apollo dev's framing of the call is so disingenuous. When you want to extort a company like he did, it goes like this:

1. you float the idea somewhat ambiguously with some plausible deniability

Then either:

2a. the company seems receptive, that didn't happen here so no need to follow that path

2b. the company rebuffs the idea

3. you switch to your plausible deniability case

4. the company accepts your new framing of your extortion attempt for one of many reasons (maybe it's too much hassle to hold you to what you really meant, or they still want to continue working with you, etc). they might even say something like "oh sorry, i misunderstood you earlier", but of course it's really just how you navigate that situation.

To then go and take their response at (4) and say "oh, even they admitted that they misunderstood me" is disingenuous.

[Jcowell]

What’s the disingeniuty? The proposal from Apollo’s whether it was a joke or a genuine one, was business. “Apollo’s is so good that people rather use it than your official app? Buy it”. The only distinguity here is to act like Apollo has any power in this situation.

> To then go and take their response at (4) and say "oh, even they admitted that they misunderstood me" is disingenuous

it’s not disingenuous when they literally apologized , multiple times , in that call that they misunderstood. Literally