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Plenty of services managed to build large user bases before being on Android.

Instagram comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Instagram



In tech years that was a different age. Early iphone years apps were novel and could easily gain traction just for being an app (like in 2023 how anything that talks to GPT4 gets people super excited)


Plenty more floundered because of that shortsightedness.

Surely you realize that picking one of the most successful apps created this past decade is not the resounding endorsement you think it is.


Surely you realize they're far from the only one, and just happened to have a wiki entry with a timeline that proved my point?




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