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Hey Google, what happened to all the fun?
How Google killed a 14 year old Android app.
Google started requiring developers to fill out disclosure forms for things like health data collection, user age verifications, etc. While the code of the app hadn’t changed since 2010, I had been updating it to work with the current Android build tools so bumping the the target SDK version and compiling a new APK binary was no big deal, I thought. After all, I’m not exactly losing sleep over any of this beyond writing what is essentially a post-mortem for an app that I probably feel a little too connected to given it’s death represents an era of the internet that I have a lot of nostalgia for.
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