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Comment by lapcat

They did: 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.

parent lapcat 3 years ago

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