Source.

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.

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    For posterity, but also for forks if the repos go down, I have created https://github.com/SimplerMobileTools and downloaded all the original repos, branches, and tags which will soon be uploaded there.

    I have already got SM Gallery compiling, so thats a start, and will upload all the repos tomorrow when its not so late.

    Note: Any former maintainer of SMT will be added on to SrMT upon request.

    EDIT: All forks updated with notice of rationale and link to this discussion.

    EDIT2: https://github.com/FossifyOrg is a soft fork created by one of the current maintainers. I will keep the hard fork up just in case.

  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Noooooo! I love their gallery app. Guess it’s time to turn off auto-update on it.

    Thank you for sharing this!

  • dandu3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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

  • Abe Froman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Terrible news. These apps are really great. Reminds me of what happened to Quick Pick and ES file explorer and u could also add Nova Launcher. More apps assigned to the graveyard. Hopefully they get forked quickly and updated when needed.