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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by wvenable on Thursday April 07, 2016 @06:13PM (#11451114)
Why not make AlienBlue the official reddit app? They bought it! This is a very strange course of action.

This is one of "Things You Should Never Do" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by robwilliams on Thursday April 07, 2016 @07:49PM (#11451613)
Well it was the official app before this one. Considering how good AB is I think there's some technical reason to redo the app. Who knows.
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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by kennywinker on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:45AM (#11452980)
My guess: AlienBlue was developed with power users in mind and this new app was developed with showing people ads in mind.

A major re-design gives them the excuse to remove and never re-add many features and tune the app for a different type of user and a different type of interaction.

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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by robwilliams on Friday April 08, 2016 @12:12PM (#11455757)
Inserting ads into the Alien Blue feed would have been easy. You may be right about the different target user, though.
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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by joshschreuder on Thursday April 07, 2016 @07:56PM (#11451638)
AB was developed by one person (who is still on the app team) - it's possible AB isn't suited to having a team work on it, or they want to follow new best practices (eg. Swift)
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