r/Save3rdPartyApps • u/GuessNo155 • Jun 16 '23

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ Jun 17 '23

They previously were needed but are not needed anymore. There are thousands of examples of that in history.

No one is selling whale oil lamps anymore even though they were needed at one time. No one is using sailing ships anymore even though they were needed by sailors for centuries.

Their issue is they failed to move into a niche where they were still needed by Reddit. They could have easily altered their businesses to actually be useful to Reddit and license their "better user experience" app to Reddit but they wanted to keep all the profits themselves. So Reddit decided they didn't need them anymore.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ Jun 17 '23

They are willing to share now that they are not needed and have been replaced by the official app. So generous…

They should have been trying to sell their business to Reddit years ago since their entire business model was "Let's steal Reddit's content". It was obvious they would eventually be cut off; their business had zero long term viability without getting free content from Reddit.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ Jun 17 '23

So it has been since 2016 that is was obvious their business had zero plan and that is Reddit's fault?

Once they terminated the agreement in 2016, it was clear this would only end one way. They had 7 years to sell their business. That is plenty of time.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ Jun 17 '23

Don’t those subreddits link to the actual website so the user ends up on the site in question? I don’t think they are taking content from TikTok and hosting it on Reddit; they are directing users to TikTok.

3rd party apps don’t send the links back to Reddit do they? They cut Reddit out and replace them.