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Simple Mobile apps have been very popular among FOSS enthusiasts. I've personally been using the Gallery, Contacts and the Phone app since a few years now. It's a shame that it has come to this, will be on the lookout for their forks.

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[–] 93 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Wtf. I paid for the apps to avoid exactly this....

Too many people think the "free" in free software means "without monetary cost". Development costs money. If nobody pays, it gets sold

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Same here. Donated not only to cover my installs, but also for everyone I recommended it to. I hope the f-droid version wont be affected, otherwise I have to uninstall the upcomming bloat- and spyware ridden versions manually from a bunch of devices smh.

    I mean I am fine with apps not being maintained and eventually break, but selling out and breaching trust like this is exactly how regular companies would treat me and why I chose FOSS in the first place.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Looks like the community is already forking the project. It would be cool if fdroid has a clean transition to the fork.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That would be a terrible precedent...

    Oh we'll just "cleanly" (silently) update to a different fork by a different dev.

    Thats exactly what we are trying to avoid google play "cleanly" updating our apps to the new, spyware apps

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wtf. I paid for the apps to avoid exactly this…

    And this is why I never pay for apps. You never know what changes (external or internal) are going to enshittify it next.

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