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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Response Regarding Google PlayStore App Updates · termux/termux-app · Discussion #4000 · GitHub (github.com)

submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not being harsh; they bungled that initial transition badly too; despite it being a Google action.

Unfortunately they left a lot of users in the lurch when they left the Play Store as well and that too left a bad taste. It's not exactly easy to migrate across versions and packages and software differ wildly as they allowed both versions to do their own thing without relabeling them so you could run them side-by-side.

I don't blame them for Google's actions; but I do blame them for how they handled it.

You might be confusing my transition into a rant against Google as blaming Termux.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 5 months ago

No matter what, if a team loses access to the Play Store, there's nothing they can do about that. They're not absolved of guilt, but it's certainly something that could happen to any team. After that, they tried to make the best of the situation and did so, until this Play Store release, which is, as I've mentioned not good.