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They did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Blue The problem is that BigCos destroy the 3rd party apps that they acq
by lapcat 3y ago
They did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Blue
The problem is that BigCos destroy the 3rd party apps that they acquire. The same thing happened after Twitter acquired Tweetie.
Indie devs and BigCos have vastly different incentives. Simply acquiring an app won't help, because the app will no longer be developed and managed by an indie dev. Wreckage is inevitable.
- ender341341 3y agonot that I particularly disagree with your premise, but alien blue had been somewhat abandonware for quite a while before reddit bought it. It had trouble with basic markdown like tables, let alone new features that made it increasingly less great before reddit bought them out.