Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.
Going to take the moment to plug Action Launcher! I’ve been using it for years and it’s fantastic!
Switch to the open source Neo Launcher!
Their Github page looks like there’s active development, but yeah no actual releases for a long time
Till now we have no alpha release of 1.0.0, but this would come in the next weeks.
Finger crossed!
It pisses me off that apps I’ve paid for become tainted like this.
To be fair, i paid like $3, 10 years ago… So, not a great revenue stream for the developer
Obviously selling to an ad company is not good, but i’m not sure what the alternative is in a world where everyone expects everything for free
So, not a great revenue stream for the developer
For context Nova Prime has over 5+ million paying users, and it’s $6 when I check the Play Store.
The dev was just a single guy, who later hired someone to help with support and artwork. But if $30 million in revenue wasn’t good enough, I’m not sure what else you could expect.
while still a lot of money, keep in mind, a decent amount of those downloads was bought on sale. in my own personal context, i only had bought it when it was 1$
Version 8 removed some stuff i used, so now im trying out Niagara and Smart launcher. The latter is really close to Nova.