Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a Gboard rival

Re:Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a... by QueridoGuy on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:20PM (#21336149)

I used to be a big fan of Fleksy app before the creators went to pinterest and sold their app to some company. They new devs probably didn’t know how to fix their previous bugs or work on the code itself. So they started adding new “features” , which was a toolbar for a keyboard app. Kept contacting them on fixing their error, but they just said we know it’s there. Until i switched back to Gboard.

I would say, it’s probably because they added something to that toolbar.

It’s always like that for most apps, especially keyboard apps. A company abandon their app, then another company buy it from them and not know how to deal with the app. The app ends up with bloatware that no one asked for and then the app gets abandoned

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Re:Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a... by mintplant on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:20PM (#21337310)

> I would say, it’s probably because they added something to that toolbar.

Nope, the article states otherwise.

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Re:Google’s Play Store gives a worse age rating to Fleksy, a... by jariel on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:10PM (#21340712)

As someone with insider information into this specific situation I would simply remind you that were people willing to pay 50 cents for this app, Fleksy wouldn't have needed to sell to Pinterest and therefore would not have.

I'm bothered by how pilloried I am consistently when mentioning that most of these are 'free' apps and someone, somewhere, somehow needs to pay for it. Very few 'open source' projects make good 'Products' (they help, but alone OSS is not consumer oriented). It takes work to do these things. All kinds of work.

$1/download or 25 cents/month would wipe out 1/2 of consumer issues like this pretty quickly, but almost nobody wants to pay.

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