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

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    11 months ago

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

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        11 months ago

        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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 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.