Except you could post and comment through that medium, increasing their traffic, content and engagement without costing them a cent in development. Then they waited ten years beyond necessary to realise an app was indeed a good idea and fucked every user and developer to get theirs out and in front of people.
to play devil’s advocate, from reddit’s view those third party apps were just using server resources and making them no money.
Except you could post and comment through that medium, increasing their traffic, content and engagement without costing them a cent in development. Then they waited ten years beyond necessary to realise an app was indeed a good idea and fucked every user and developer to get theirs out and in front of people.
That’s a good point, i didn’t consider the value of the content it creates