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Perhaps the standard should be, "If you are required to have an account to use this service, on or off the app, then you can require it on the app." For contex
by EA-3167 3y ago
Perhaps the standard should be, "If you are required to have an account to use this service, on or off the app, then you can require it on the app."
For context that would mean that to browse a site like Hacker News, you couldn't require an account, but to post you could. It covers things like Banks or Steam, etc.
Would that be workable?
- freedomben 3y agoThat seems like a great policy to me. I bought a guitar tuner app in the past and that's exactly and all it did: act as a tuner. But it then got acquired by a company that sells guitar lessons and other things, and they completely f-ed up the app and it requires an account and a subscription now if you want to tune your guitar. Fortunately there are other options in the Play Store, but I paid like $15 or $20 for it at some point. This tempts me at a side comment about why I hate automatic updates, but I'll refrain. Luckily it was Android so I was able to backup the APK before they ruined the app, and I sideload it now. Along with old Pocket Casts, Audible, and a couple of others.
- mfashby 3y agoWas that DaTuner? I got really annoyed by that too.
- jddj 3y agoI only go to F-droid for these utility apps. Guitar tuners, flashlights, QR scanners, etc. Open source hobby-sized projects which are done when they're done.
- freedomben 3y agoThis is a terrific strategy! I'm going to do exactly this. Thanks for sharing.
- mfashby 3y agoCythara on f-droid for guitar tuning!