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I don't imagine they are as tiny as one might expect. Since it took Reddit many, many years to actually push out an official application. And, even with the extraneous new features being available in the official application, the user experience is bloody awful.
I imagine it has not even much to do with advertisements, but with the same reason why every single bloody business is now desperately trying to force you to install an app. Be it McDonald's, CVS, whatever. The level of data collection possible via mobile app is completely insane compared to a website or API. And selling off that data brings in way more money than advertisements ever could.
Comment by iamthatis at 19/04/2023 at 15:10 UTC
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Tiny is relative. I'm saying Apollo gets probably 10-100x less downloads then the official app (going off download ranks on the App Store), so it's tiny relative to the official app.