this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even if it's removed from fdroid because they want to close source it, I assume my current installations of their apps would be unaffected - just become stale and obsolete over time since they won't get updates... But as they're offline anyway, not too concerned in the short term. Hopefully the company respects the privacy amd care of the open source community and won't take that away from us, though. One way to find out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

In the linked github issue it has turned out that the company is expected to turn up data mining and ads as much as they can