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		andrewmutz on May 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife What motivated the company to make this change? They clearly marketed/designed it with romantic features, and now want those to be gone. Does the company profit in some way by this change? Were they afraid of regulation or bad press?

banana_giraffe on May 1, 2023 [–]

I'd assume they were afraid of being pulled from the App Store, either for vague reasons, or because Apple straight out warned them. And they decided a Android-only, or Website-only version of their product wouldn't perform as well as a version without romantic features.

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