Definition of a threat:

a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.

Let's assume for a second that the Apollo dev DID in fact mean what they thought he meant at first. Can someone explain to me how that would make it a threat? "Buy my app, or else.. " what? Or else what? In what universe could that even have been a threat?

I keep thinking back on this and how this whole argument about whether or not it was a threat is a complete red herring because there was nothing he can threaten them WITH, so how can you construe it as a threat?