[mythtv] Google Play Store Dev fees

[Greg Oliver]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:17 AM Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 07:45 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi.
>
> > I would be willing to pay the Google fees for the developer account,
> > etc if
> > you are interested in publishing the MythFrontend and MythLeanFront
> > apps on
> > the Play Store.
>
> Paying fees to give away FOSS apps.  ~sigh~


I agree there, but the ecosystem is the ecosystem too.  The company I work
for is the same way, but eventually, we had to give in to the dark side to
make users happy :(


>
> > It is not any big deal to sideload them, but as their popularity
> > seems to
> > be increasing (because they kick ass), it would be easier :)
> >
> > I have 10s of devices I load them on at various places, so the
> > investment
> > would be small for me.
>
> You could also look into alternate app stores if you want the
> convenience of being able to install from an app store.
>

(prior to Android hat on here)

The original iPhone 3rd party repos were fun to play with and all, but it
just becomes a game of cat and mouse in the long run.  Like I said, I
really do not care because I have network adb enabled on them all and it is
actually faster to sideload them all with a single command, but I was
thinking of ease of use for others and also the visibility aspect.  All in
all I agree, but most here are not FOSS purists as they run the nVidia
driver anyway :)



> F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/en/) is one such store that I install apps
> from that are not on the Google Play store.  It's an open source app
> store for open source projects.
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
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