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Q3/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, again (linuxphoneapps.org)

submitted 3 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 14 points 3 months ago

It's really nice to see the numbers embiggify even if not a single one will ever end up on my phone due to not filling any need of mine.

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There are definitely more than just those that are mobile optimized, and tagged as such. Some even that work well on mobile, but don't have the tag too

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I'm assuming Android has created an army of app developers with roughly transferable skills.

I'm also assuming it has killed the interest of many of them putting the work in developing open sourced solutions in an increasingly closed source ecosystem.

Fuck you, big tech.

The world owes so, so much to Linus, even if most people will never appreciate it, or why. He's an actual fucking hero. I mean, he seems a bit of a dick, but the kind of dick that's usually technically correct, which is the worst kind of correct, but I still idolize the man. Not many people could turn the money I'm sure this guy has turned down.

[+] Zachariah@lemmy.world -9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

so thirty-one then?

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Nailed it.

In total, we managed to add a total of 31 apps and games in the third quarter. This brought the count up to total of 730 apps and games on September 30th, 2025.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

again

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m even more confused now

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“again” implies that 30 apps being added is not the first time. It could be the second, third, or twenty-fifth time. It was not specified how many, but certainly there are a lot more than 31 apps on linux phones.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

according to the site, 730 apps work with Linux phones. There are probably plenty more that are not on the site (like more niche programs or apps that are only half-optimized for mobile)

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More than thirty in how long? Is this the second (or more) time? When was the last time? Why is thirty significant?

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More than thirty in how long?

In a calendar quarter, (IE: 3 months) as denoted by 'Q3'.

Is this the second (or more) time? When was the last time? Why is 30 significant?

It is the second, the last time was the previous quarter Q2/2025 Progress: Over 30 apps added, JSON API hence the 'again' in this title. The number of apps added is significant because it's a blog tracking the number of app additions to flathub for Linux phones.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. Although some of this seems a bit arbitrary, you’ve now provided the context I needed to understand the title.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No problem, all I did was click the link to check, I'm not affiliated with the blog or flathub etc; so I might be wrong on how many times 30+ apps have been released in a quarter.

But as you say... Seems arbitrary to fixate on the number; the 'again' seems to be related to their blog posts, as it was a succession of 2 consecutive quarters with 30+ releases... I don't think it was meant to be any deeper than 'this title is practically the same as the last title'

My takeaway from the blog, is that the author is trying to convey an increase in development for Linux mobile apps, which with the recent side loading restriction nonsense from Google; wouldn't be all that surprising. It will be interesting to see if the trend continues.

[–] 1peter10@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Author here.

It's just a report on what we managed to accomplish for LinuxPhoneApps.org, a project that

lists apps for Linux Phones like the PinePhone or Librem 5, that run Linux distributions which do not have a proper (de)centralized app store yet.

That an app was added does not necessary mean it is new or anything, just that it was added to LinuxPhoneApps.org's app list. It may be years old (and may have worked on #LinuxMobile for a long, long time, but we just missed it before. And the again just refers to the previous quarter ;-)

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, something wasn’t clicking when I read it. Now I got it.