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Apollo was already a nice app so why didn't reddit just buy apollo and integrate ads into it and just keep the features that made everyone happy.

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[-] Stovetop@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

To be pedantic, they didn't develop their own. They bought an existing client and then Frankensteined it.

I'd assume they didn't see a need for a second one, though.

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