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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.
FFS just started using these apps
Wow I was never comfortable about the marketing vibe around those apps on f-droid, so I avoided them. I'm glad of that now. Still, someone can snag the source code for a fork if they want, and I'm sure there are alternatives.
Damn, i will really miss the Gallery app
Keep using the current version for now, it's perfectly stable.
Same shit company bought the pixel minimal watch face, and they're now charging like 18$ PER WEEK for premium features.
I had already bought it thankfully and I kept my premium status but still. I was not happy
$18 per week?! Damn Netflix and Disney+ prices aren't even that high.
Part of the reason why I prefer to use open source apps whenever possible is because of this, you never really know if an app will be bought out by someone shady and start adding gross stuff to it, but open source apps can and will be forked.
Not an ideological reason, but a practical one.
Its opensource, assuming the new owners move it to a less favorable license just fork the last good version and continue from there.
man, the gallery and calendar were great!
When I migrated to GrapheneOS I chose to use all the system's native applications (AOSP) for obvious reasons but I admit that this news makes me very worried, one less dev we will have on our side.
Any good alternatives for the dialer/contacts/sms/calendar apps?
I use material files btw, so luckily I wasn't hit quite as hard on the file manager perspective
Ah no, that sucks. I've been using a lot of those apps.
I always try to avoid these because of how they had held users data hostage on their calendar's play store version, glad this happened so there can be a foss fork by more trustable parties. Yay!
Nooooo
Hmm, I think I got Simple File Manager Pro from F-droid, would I need to do something else for it?
What is a good alternative?
Also I had the simple music player app, although I have no music downloaded ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
EDIT: hmm, strange acquisition actually, only the fee apps? Or the deal ain't over?
Time to download all those apks and keep them mirrored elsewhere, I fear for their future now
So the most important question is - what happens to the F-Droid versions? Will the apps still be listed in F-Droid in the future, and if so, should they still be updated?
I think it is worth mentioning that there is an alternative for each one of Simple Mobile Tools apps. It will just mean we have to spend some time looking for such apps yet again. We as users of FOSS software must be always prepared to move from one application to another. This is why walled gardens, export to / import from open standard formats and in general easy replaceability of FOSS SW is important. This is just a sad fact about using FOSS where FOSS maintainers are just normal people, with all their needs, faults, and weaknesses.