That really is by far not the first time that they have responded on this forum!
@ All Developers (and Users)
All my apps are allready open-sourced on BitBucket.
But i most certainly will not request the apps to be removed from the App Store.
I mean, what is the point? It would only hurt the end users.
LG has already bought Homey/Athom. Removing apps from the Store will not turn this around, the deal is done people!
So why remove apps? To speedup the uselessness of Homey faster than 3 years?
Serieusly, do not hurt the users by removing apps from the Store.
Unless you believe it would make LG drop out of the (already done) deal, which is just not gonna happen, for sure.
I fully agree with @ChrisG and am sadden by this move by Athom.
Personally i am convinced that, if LG just wanted the OS for there own environment, Athom could have made much better financiel deals, like licensing the OS or whatever.
With my experience as Business consultant, i am convinced that, since LG took over full control of Homey/Athom, what the wanted, is full control over Homey/Athom. That’s how it works and that’s whats happend.
So the thought of Homey staying Homey (privacy first f.i.) is just a curtain being pulled over your eyes.
(Lets hope there will come solutions for more privacy. F.i. i pay for YouTube (certainly not out of love for Google) just to not get any commercials).
That being said…:
Again, please Developers, do not remove apps from the store. There is absolutly no point:
- It will not role back the deal of LG buying Athom.
- It will not hurt LG (and what would be the point of that?).
- It will not hurt the Founders (and what would be the point of that?).
- It will hurt the users!
