| ▲ | c0wb0yc0d3r 2 days ago |
| This is different though, isn’t it? Amazon still exists. The whole platform is shutting down. Individual devs aren’t taking down their apps. |
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| ▲ | syntheticnature 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I had a Google Play app whose dev died. It was just a simple local app -- no network server usage. When I last upgraded my phone (due to imminent failure of the previous one) it refused to copy the app over -- and the app was no longer in the Play store. |
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| ▲ | fencepost 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I still have the APK for one called "Backitude" and have kept migrating it for years since the disappearance of the developer. It's nothing special, just a location tracker that logs to a file every so often based on time and/or distance moved (could also ping a URL with encoded location info instead). Basically the underlying data for location history without relying on Google. Its notable feature years ago was that it would do location 'steals' - instead of just triggering a then-expensive location check, it would grab the most current available location info as triggered by some other application and only force an update if that information was too old. | |
| ▲ | genewitch a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | a more distant example is VLC on apple devices. I don't remember what happened anymore and any guesses would be speculation, but at one point on iphones you could not get VLC unless you had already gotten VLC. | |
| ▲ | kyleee 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | More evidence of the sad state of general purpose computing |
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| ▲ | numpad0 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The Amazon store will remain open for Fire tablets if I'm reading right, and those are AOSP-based. So it's kind of similar. Again, not that I'm fine with it, but that I think it's technically not unprecedented. |
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| ▲ | bbarnett 2 days ago | parent [-] | | It's not even remotely similar. The app store vanishes from your phone, with no recourse. Don't make excuses for Amazon, please. |
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