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this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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Luckily google would never do the same to android /s
https://keepandroidopen.org/
Its still cheaper to publish on the play store (one time fee of $25), and iirc apks would still be installable with adb anyway.
Still a shitty thing to do
One time fee sure, and then they close your account for not pushing updates frequently enough....
Give them a pseudo update
It's just not worth the effort. You'll find out they have change their policies on something, and you'll have to fix your app to suit. It's an endless churn of busywork
Honestly, that's great, but you might as well cut to the chase and switch ROMs as well. Google isn't going to budge.
To postmarketos preferably