• @tal@lemmy.today
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    199 months ago

    I’ve never used them, but IIRC they acquired some third-party client and then just modified them. “Blue Alien” or something like that?

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    “Alien Blue”, at least for the official iOS app.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Blue

    I dunno what the history of the Android app is.

    That being said, they’re responsible for what they acquire, just saying that a lot of that might not be developed in-house.

    • @poppy@lemm.ee
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      249 months ago

      They acquired Alien Blue, but what they put out under “Reddit” was not Alien Blue in the least bit. They basically bought it to kill it. I had Alien Blue. :(

    • Flying Squid
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      149 months ago

      Hey, acquiring another app and launching it as your own app is still launching it! What would they have done without spez?

        • quicklime
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          79 months ago

          My favorite way to visualize the meaning of “asshat”: the person is such a sad waste of human life that their entire upper body is effectively just a hat for their posterior.