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If Apollo is so popular, why doesn't Reddit clone the best features for their app?

I'm guessing the Apollo founder here is trying to get bought out at this point, which is pretty smart.

We saw this before with Alien Blue, which was previously the top iOS app. Reddit bought it, promised to turn it into their official app, killed it, and released a version with fewer features and more bugs.

If Reddit buys Apollo, there's zero chance they let it operate independently. Christian gets a nice payout and all his users leave for the next best option. If I'm reddit I don't think I see that as being worth the cost that the app's userbase might be on paper just based on API cost.

Apollo should clone Reddit's backend instead.

The value of reddit is not in the backend.

It's in the network. The million dollar idea is how to get the users to move somewhere else.

its the domain name

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