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The cost for reddit as stated in another part of the call is an opportunity cost. By acquiring Apollo instead of shutting it down they would seamlessly acquire a lot of users who would have a hard time adjusting to the native app and potentially leave the platform, so this call is still a cost to them.

I think a much bigger point can be summarized with this sentence from the article:

> Seven of the top ten results are trying to sell you something, which really makes you question the objectivity of the advice.

This is true when searching for pretty much everything in Google nowadays, that's why if you're looking for any info, searching on reddit usually yields much more objective and generally better results.

There would be no economic advantage to that kind of behavior. I'm a fan of paid services rather than ad-based services because it switches the focus. The customer is the person that pays, not the advertising company, so the company will have an economic advantage to give a better service to you, not to the ad companies. Something like that would just jeopardise the customer for no particular economic gain, so yeah, I'd trust them.

Yeah, we had Italian Football player cards because Italy loves football.

If you think about it, software quality is not something that is ever visible or measurable from the outside.

Theoretically, you could write software by just having an incredibly long list of test cases and a random string generator.

The quality of that code would probably be terrible, but it would still work as long as your test cases are restrictive enough.