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Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
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Re: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
#32What a shame. Used and paid for this app for a couple of years now.
Re: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
#33I dropped Evernote when it was bought and the entire U.S. staff was fired. Replacing it with another, preferably free and open source. (search going on at this time)
Evernote never worked reliably, well, or consistently. Apple Notes squished their business model and now Obsidian has somewhat juiced Apple's.
Re: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
#34What looks odd to me is this silence about acquisition. I've got a lot of emails and read enough blog posts from developers that brags about new owners and new opportunities that goes with it. Bartender is just utility app, but has permissions to e.g screen recording, so new version from new developer without prior explanation just seems shady
Probably going to slip an AI “feature” into it somehow but it’s really just windows recall under the hood
Re: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
#35In case you are already using my BetterTouchTool app: I have created a little tutorial & example preset here on how to use it for status item management: https://community.folivora.ai/t/bartender-controversy-tutori... You can add feature requests there, it should be pretty simple to extend BTT to support the remaining required features. I have also recently been approached by shady companies trying to buy my app (I'd…
I just bought a license for BTT after having used it for a week or so. It's absolutely amazing. Thank you for making this awesome tool.
Re: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
#36I don't know, but since when buyers need to identify themself? This is just a change of ownership, no malware were found
For a piece of software that has screen recording access on my device, I'd rather we have someone to hold accountable and is willing to put their reputation on the line to disincentivize them from updating it one day to start sending off images to home.
Re: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
#37This is the danger of closed source software. There is no guarantee that the developers incentives will remain aligned with yours.
This happens with OSS apps as well, see the Simple Mobile Tools takeover by an Israeli adware company, affecting several popular Android apps (Gallery, File Manager, others). https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
The big difference is free and freemium OSS can fork. There's no forking closed source backend servers or apps.
Re: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
#38I dropped Evernote when it was bought and the entire U.S. staff was fired. Replacing it with another, preferably free and open source. (search going on at this time)
Try anytype.io it’s free and open source.
Re: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
#39Re: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
#40This is the danger of closed source software. There is no guarantee that the developers incentives will remain aligned with yours.
This happens with OSS apps as well, see the Simple Mobile Tools takeover by an Israeli adware company, affecting several popular Android apps (Gallery, File Manager, others). https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...