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> Even the simplest things, like a 'torch' are ad-supported on android these days. This has a built-in feature on every smartphone for years now. These apps ar
by yaomtc 6y ago
> Even the simplest things, like a 'torch' are ad-supported on android these days.
This has a built-in feature on every smartphone for years now. These apps are a scam.
- redkoala 6y agoApp stores should really prevent these type of no value add apps.
- naveen_jain07 6y agoAnd after that you will say big giant tech companies controlling our businesses.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoIt's a tough problem. Unconstrained market is a cesspool. Somebody needs to set some limits - the question is, who and what.
- a1369209993 6y agoApp store monopoly and monopsony status is a seperate (albeit related) problem from app stores having no or shitty quality control. If a non-monop'y app store wants to control peoples' business... well, they can't; people will just use a different app store; that's the point.
- eecc 6y agoI guess it was a mere rhetorical artifice to mean "if not useless, of very scarse added value".
- jfengel 6y agoIs there a standard way to get at "turn the screen white and the brightness up"? I used to have a torch app that had that mode (presumably, lower power than driving the flash LED), along with a few others (like a night-vision-preserving red screen). Hardly the most challenging app in the world, but it was worth the $.99 I paid for it. I probably could have written it myself, and while I personally would likely have made it free, I felt ok giving somebody a tiny tip for it.
- emmelaich 6y agoThere is http://www.openintents.org/flashlight/ http://www.openintents.org/flashlight/ And other apps in the OI family. Not sure whether they've been updated for current Android versions.