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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Guess it's a good thing I'm a cheap motherfucker then. If an app has a price tag next to it, I don't use it. Now if an app is open source and they ask me to donate to it, I'm willing to do that.

[–] SorryImLate@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not both? ;)

Some FOSS apps are only available for a fee in the play store and I think that's great. They're able to access a bigger market for funding purposes, and we both know the vast majority of play store users won't make the effort to figure out how to make donations otherwise.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe OSMAnd is in the Play Store, but costs money. But if you get it from fdroid, it's free. And I'm okay with that, because I use fdroid.

[–] SorryImLate@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Precisely, that's what I meant. Different market segments need different approaches.