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Often you can sideload the ones you're missing. Also there's the AOSP. And openness to use a custom launcher, browser engine, overlays, ...
by jhasse 9y ago
Often you can sideload the ones you're missing.
Also there's the AOSP. And openness to use a custom launcher, browser engine, overlays, ...
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoAOSP is crippled/barely functional due to parts being abandoned in favor of Google Apps. And as far as sideloading, where are you supposed to get the apps? The Play Store won't let you download them off the web, because that would let them out of the walled garden. Most companies won't link their APKs, they just link you to the Play Store. You might get lucky and it's popular enough to be on APKMirror, but there's really not a "good" way to sideload. Oh, and most apps require Play Services to run now, and won't work even if you do sideload them.
- jhasse 9y agoNever said it's perfect, just not "zero".
- michaelmrose 9y agoIts close enough to zero and getting worse not improving. Its time for people who care about making things stop trying to make things with android and ditch the platform.