![]() ![]() I make All Clear Weather, an optional-subscription weather app for the US, if you're interested. As shown by the state of the Play Store in 2019. A one-time fee to cover monthly recurring costs just isn't going to work. Pay once? That's free for life from the perspective of a developer. It's shocking to me how, in 2019, people still want shit for free even though our society has crumbled through this dive to the bottom: we are cooking the oceans and dumping plastic everywhere because we want cheap physical goods, and we are shoving trackers/spyware/ads in everyone's face digitally because you want free service for life for all your apps. Yelling loudly that you hate businesses who have a sustainable model means that you are thinking exclusively short-term and are just yearning for the death of quality, ad-free apps.Īndroid is historically a wasteland because of people like OP, shouting hateful opinions, wishing developers ill, and otherwise inciting a crowd to make developers' lives a living hell for the future. Developers need food, housing, and general income at a reliable rate if they are going to make apps. Without a subscription model, the OP is asking for an empty, ad-filled, spy-ridden, wasteland of apps. The fees exist so that the app can continue to exist. I make free weather apps, and I charge an optional $1/month subscription if you want extra features / longer forecasts, etc. A single purchase for a lifetime of service would bankrupt me. Ads are based on spying on your every move. Subscriptions are one of the only ways that an app ecosystem will even thrive. I haven't bought a new version of Office recently, ever since Google Docs and LibreOffice became a thing, but it looks like even Microsoft has switched to a subscription model. I'd end up re-buying Office every few years or so because new major features were added. I guess my preferred model would be something like app devs making a new app listing for an app every couple of major versions, and hiding the old one from the public so new people can't buy it anymore. ![]() ![]() On one hand I'd like to support apps so they don't die off, on the other hand I'm already paying a lot for so many things that I can't justify paying an app subscription. Some of them have changed to a subscription model after I bought them, so it was like I didn't buy anything and was just like the other people using it for free. I can still download it from my "library" of downloaded apps, but it won't have any updates and might stop working.Ī whole lot of cheaper paid apps I've bought have gotten pulled from the Play Store too. It got removed from the Play Store a year later. I paid $30 for a Japanese pitch accent dictionary. Post not showing up? Have a suggestion? Message the mods. All posts must be selftexts No hit and run spam!Īpp is on sale (include the price in the title)Īpp Recommendations Top Community Alternatives Google Play Store Top Paid Apps Top Free Apps Trending Apps Related Subreddits (Hover).All posts must be app related This means no rumors of upcoming phones.New sources may be suggested by the community at any time, as long as they have policies against piracy. ![]() You may directly link to APKs Apk linking may only be from approved sources, or directly from the developer Approved sources are Google Play, apkmirror, XDA-Labs, and F-Droid.Exceptions are made at mod team's discretion. Additionally, a developer may only post once per month. You must engage the community, hit and run posts are not allowed. Self promotion guidelines When self promoting a app, your self promotion must be a self post tagged with.Videos inside self posts/comments are fine. Videos aren't allowed as posts by their self. A article that is "Top 5 apps to try today!" will not be allowed. This means that a article saying "Google Hangouts v6 released, here's what's new" is fine. Articles directly about a specific app are allowed. Blog articles about apps will be allowed within moderation. Posting a link to any pirated app or asking for a pirated app, or helping users pirate apps, is an immediate seven day ban. r/AndroidApps has a zero tolerance piracy policy.Get community feedback on an app you have created. ![]()
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