[gtech1]

But you mentioned similar...this is a discussion about message limits (and saml ?). Those are free for self hosted.

Push uses _their_ services. That's why it costs $$$. But you can build your own apns endpoint and plug into that at that volume

[emptysongglass]

Push costs pennies. It's an arbitrary restriction.

[Volundr]

If you want to run your own push for pennies all you have to do is compile the client yourself.

[emptysongglass]

I'm not going to recompile and redistribute a binary outside the Play Store.

[Volundr]

Then your piggybacking on their infrastructure. I don't think they are unreasonable. "It can be done for pennies, but I won't" sort of implies that it does indeed take more than pennies worth of effort.

[gtech1]

Then you pay for it. Nothing stops you

[emptysongglass]

That's precisely my point. It's an arbitrary rent-seeking restriction.

[dlkckvll]

Publishing an app in popular app stores, for an organization, requires several $100 in annual fees. That’s before any mobile app is even published.

[gtech1]

At this point I think he's just trolling. Nobody can be this entitled

[emptysongglass]

It's a yearly fee that amounts to a couple hundred dollars. That's about an hour of an engineer's salary. Zulip's customers make this less than a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a rounding error.