There is no use for having a good first party app when you can just kill all competition. Reddit does not need to care anything other than making money through their apps.
The 3rd party apps were never a competition; Reddit could bind the developers to any kind of ToS they wanted, including running Reddit’s ads, forwarding usage data, and anything else they wanted.
There is no use for having a good first party app when you can just kill all competition. Reddit does not need to care anything other than making money through their apps.
Yeah, and the end game is data collection. Doesn’t matter if users complain. As long as the users of the official app grows it is a success.
The 3rd party apps were never a competition; Reddit could bind the developers to any kind of ToS they wanted, including running Reddit’s ads, forwarding usage data, and anything else they wanted.
What Reddit has done instead, is total nonsense.