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While generally true, I've also found free apps are usually decent and not-scummy if they're open source.

• magnetic 8y ago
  Could you give us some examples? I'd like to go check them out.
  • scurvy 8y ago
    Living Earth HD is great. Full disclosure, I formerly worked with the author.
  • modzu 8y ago
    https://github.com/conceptualspace/trueweather https://github.com/conceptualspace/trueweather
• modzu 8y ago
  generally a good rule of thumb, though ive also seen a few cases of a good open source app having a bunch of scummy forks that end up being more popular on the app store (eg shuttle vs phonograph). i wonder if google promotes apps with advertising more than their ad-free counterparts? the conflict of interest is so obvious but i digress..
  • mikekchar 8y ago
    Generally I trust the Fdroid repository much more than I trust Google's repository. Though if Fdroid became very popular with the masses I don't think that could continue to be the case, unfortunately. It's a difficult problem to weed out the bad apps...
    • modzu 8y ago
      thanks for the link to fdroid, have never used it but it looks promising!
• threatofrain 8y ago
  The best free apps I've found are just business moats to point you to another money maker. As callous as I'm phrasing it, those free apps tend to be leagues better than the population of paid apps.