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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by eloisant on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:54AM (#11453214)
Looks like the classical:

* Developer makes a great app so they acqui-hire him

* For the next app they want to do it "their way" so they have managers and marketing people telling him and other devs what to do

* The resulting app is the same that if they had done it from scratch without the acqui-hire (but with one less competitor)

Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by harryf on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:08AM (#11453267)
But lots of people got to feel important along the way and that's what matters
Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by reitoei on Friday April 08, 2016 @10:28AM (#11454834)
Managers gotta get paid yo