#TIL - more than a year after the fact - that just as I was considering that Simple Phone purchase, in 2023;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/110484098671876293
... Tibor Kaputa was preparing to sell the apps to ZipoApps, a company well know for buying up popular apps and enshittifying them with DataFarming, ads, etc, and sure enough;
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/simple-mobile-apps-update/24384/38
I had noticed that the Simple apps I use hadn't been updated in F-Droid for a suspiciously long time, and now I know why.
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Fortunately some developers stepped up to fork the Simple apps under the name Fossify;
So we can still have that simple, pleasant app experience we know and love, with regular updates via F-Droid or our app manager of choice.
This is a textbook example of how Free Code licenses, which enshrine the software freedoms of the people who use software, can protect us from enshittification.
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