Someone please xplain to me why Conversations and Monocles costs money in Google Play ...

2025-12-24 12:54:41 GMT

Someone please xplain to me why Conversations and Monocles costs money in Google Play and not in F-Droid.

Is it because of the Google fee to keep an account? Wasn't that a one-off thing?

I'm genuinely curious since I paid that fee a decade ago to put a shitty (yet useful) app there that I made with MIT App Inventor back in 2016.

#askfedi

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