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Just wondering what anyone might be moving to after the news broke?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Fossify is the fork of Simple Mobile Tools.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Will check out, thx

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Simple Mobile Tools was sold to a company that buys apps and bloats them with shit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which is such a strange choice, considering the only reason people use apps like this is because they're free of bloat. It's literally in the name. I don't think they researched this decision.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think they researched this decision.

Who?

The new owners? They're interested in the high rankings on the playstore. The vast majority of people don't care about bloat/privacy and install whatever is at the top of search results.

The original developers? I'm sure it worked out for them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The vast majority of people don't care about bloat/privacy and install whatever is at the top of search results.

If they don't care, they probably just stick with what came pre-installed on their devices...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ew. Can't say I'm super surprised, though. IIRC, the dev started pushing to further monetize these apps a while back by making the original versions harder to access. I mean, getting money for their work isn't a bad thing, of course, but those are some gross and uncaring ways to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Considering, he was frequently giving away the apps on sale for free. I wondered how did he make money. I guess he did not and later changed his stance and decided to sell them away. Fortunately, they were open source so forks can continue to exist.