Yes, it's #BandcampFriday but here's a different thing:
Why is no-one talking about the fact the Bandcamp music app (not the artists one) has been removed from the Google Play store?
As far as I can tell, by digging, there's some kind of dispute between Google and Bandcamp, possibly related to in-app payments?
But I can't find any significant coverage of this in the tech press, or on Fedi.
This story goes back a little while, to Epic making a stand when they owned it, in 2022.
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