That’s against Google’s terms of use, you’re not supposed to replace an app with something different.
If you had downloaded an app and all of a sudden it changes into something else, you’d be pretty displeased. Imagine if Facebook the company suddenly changed the Instagram app into an app for Facebook, they can do most of the same things, but it’s not the same.
Plus it would be fair for the developer to get new payments for lifetime subscriptions, it’s a new app which is significantly more work than just maintaining an existing one.
I do understand. But is lemmy so different from reddit? In each case the content is done by the users anyway, and subreddits come and go all of the time. One could argue that Facebooks aquisition of WhatsApp is the same kind of change, as switching out the reddit backend of Sync with a lemmy backend.
The API is completely different. The underlying code had to be completely rewritten from scratch. (Not the UI elements, the handling of the API calls.) It’s a lot of work.
I wish they had just updated the old App.
That’s against Google’s terms of use, you’re not supposed to replace an app with something different.
If you had downloaded an app and all of a sudden it changes into something else, you’d be pretty displeased. Imagine if Facebook the company suddenly changed the Instagram app into an app for Facebook, they can do most of the same things, but it’s not the same.
Plus it would be fair for the developer to get new payments for lifetime subscriptions, it’s a new app which is significantly more work than just maintaining an existing one.
I do understand. But is lemmy so different from reddit? In each case the content is done by the users anyway, and subreddits come and go all of the time. One could argue that Facebooks aquisition of WhatsApp is the same kind of change, as switching out the reddit backend of Sync with a lemmy backend.
The API is completely different. The underlying code had to be completely rewritten from scratch. (Not the UI elements, the handling of the API calls.) It’s a lot of work.
So what Google did with Google Talk, Hangouts, Duo, etc.? This is basically a case of “do what I say, not what I do”.