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Simple Mobile Tools bought by ZipoApps (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Lucky you - you have the latest and greatest of these specific apps. Now, depending on how you installed them, go ahead and disable any automatic updating.

Then, just keep an eye on the forked versions in Github, which were created by another dev who worked very closely on the Simple Mobile Tools.

Eventually there'll be new releases that you can install via Obtainium or F-droid. All the main SMT apps had settings export/import capability, so I imagine you'll be able to bring your settings across to the forked versions too.

Bit of short term pain to change over, but not all is lost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now, depending on how you installed them, go ahead and disable any automatic updating.

I only have the Simple File Manager Pro installed from F-droid? What should I do next?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Honestly, I can't recall. I uninstalled F-droid a while back, as I use Obtainium. Have a look around the F-droid page for the app you have installed. There should be a setting somewhere to prevent that app from being automatically updated, maybe to just notify you there's an update ready.

That said, you'll probably be OK if you installed via F-droid, as they have pretty good policies on preventing spammy apps or apps that mine user data.

I'm more concerned for those people that installed via the Play store and are unaware of this change - they'll probably automatically get the newer, shittier versions without even realising it. This is the community's biggest concern about the way this particular dev has sold out their userbase like this.