[eloisant]

Looks like the classical:

* Developer makes a great app so they acqui-hire him

* For the next app they want to do it "their way" so they have managers and marketing people telling him and other devs what to do

* The resulting app is the same that if they had done it from scratch without the acqui-hire (but with one less competitor)

[harryf]

But lots of people got to feel important along the way and that's what matters

[reitoei]

Managers gotta get paid yo