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  • ... They literally offered to pay. But that price has to be reasonable, and should come with more than 30 days notice.

  • Google ads are really the only ones worth a damn. Easy to sign up, they pay very well, and their libraries are incredibly easy to implement.

    The alternative is some no-name you've never heard of that requires you to apply for entry to use their platform and serves you virus ads.

    Pick one

  • Then pay to remove the ads. Someone has to pay at some point and it's either you or the guy already spending his time to make the app.

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  • They aren't using ads to "get people to pay" they're using ads to pay for people who don't want to pay

  • The paid app binary and the non paid binary are exactly the same. You do not download a new apk when you purchase content in an app. Sync's "online verification" is through Google Play' libraries. When you purchase, your device received an entitlement to that specific purchase which allows it to re-verify that purchase without hitting Google's services each time the app is opened. Since it was a lifetime subscription, this entitlement never had to be renewed.

    As for it working between phones, either the entitlement is bundled with the app (which I'm not positive of), or it's entirely possible the version you had was bugged so that it acted as though you had purchased even though you had not in the event these libraries were not available.

    Either way makes no difference. You need the entitlement to activate the features, not an entirely new APK, which means he'd have to produce a build either with that entitlement (not possible) or without the purchase verification code (since you don't have the entitlement).

  • Nobody's being forced into it, you can just decide not to do it. There's no risk or reward for doing so other than because you want to. There's no power imbalance. It's just users deciding they want to do it. It's not exploitation, haha

  • Depends. If the FOSS products has company backing, sure, but devs working in their free time are incapable of competing against a team of devs working 40 hours a week.

  • Everyone? I'm not complaining in the slightest. I'm more than willing to pay for the services I use, especially if they're miles ahead of anything free

  • I am aware that the APK is the same. BUT if he sent you the APK without changes, your purchases would not be activated because you refuse to use Google. In order to restore them, he'd have to manually enable them for you. Use your head.

  • Sure, but at the same time you can't demand ongoing development of something you pay for once

  • I don't often toot my own horn, but this is basically me. My work is pushing for people to move to LA into the office after being almost fully remote for a few years. I've never set foot in LA, and was hired fully remote. They're struggling to hire junior devs because their frontend is almost wholly custom JavaScript and nearly completely undocumented. They're currently stuck with expensive senior devs. I could easily take my title elsewhere for more than they're paying me, but I like the lax work environment enough to stick around.

    The last I heard about the move back to office was February, and they just hired more people out of state. I don't think they're pushing for it anymore, haha

  • Honestly I think you might overestimate how many people genuinely care

  • Just don't use the app. This isn't rocket science.

  • You're assuming his fixed expenses are exactly what they were a decade or even a year ago. People have obligations. Houses, cars, insurance, loan payments, all of that. Reasonable expenses at the time of acquisition based on the reasonable expected income.

    You can't assume someone can have their income reduced by 100% for a month, then maybe get ten percent of that back without issues. He's got bills to pay. This is his full time job.

  • Depends on what you mean by beholden to them. Unless you're partnering directly with certain ad providers it's pretty much plug-and-play: you can just choose to not optimize for serving ads.

  • Your subscription is tied to Google. He would have to tear out the check for a subscription since you refuse to use the typical system.

    Hence, he'd have to produce a build specifically for you without that code. This isn't rocket science.

  • Everything is a subscription because users demand their software be updated on a consistent basis. That's the nature of software development.