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Fossify: Community fork of SimpleMobileTools after their sale (github.com)
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Being run by the project developers left after the primary dev's departure and (if you'll excuse the drama) betrayal by selling to what amounts to an advertising company. Personally I've started supporting this project on github, as losing these tools would be a massive blow to the open source Android ecosystem.

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[–] florge@feddit.uk 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Out of interest, what's happening with their simple phone project?

[–] Whom@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No clue, I'm not sure SMT have said anything, tibbi has been pretty quiet. Regardless, I'd stay very far away and would be researching other custom Android versions or a new phone entirely if I had one.

[–] baconicsynergy@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I want to know what's happening too