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>won't go back until they stop coupling app store apps to the App Store app itself. How's that? You mean you can't run the downloaded apps if you uninstall the

• jamesbritt 16y ago
  How's that? You mean you can't run the downloaded apps if you uninstall the App Store app? Exactly. I have been using an app called Privacy Blocker that scans apps, reports on what identifier info apps are sending, and optional re-writes the apk to have it send bogus data. Very cool. So I scan the Amazon App Store app. Not good. I tell Privacy Blocker to fix it. Looks fine. Later I try to run Angry Birds Rio, one of the free apps Amazon was offering. I get a message telling me my App Store app is old and needs updating; Angry Birds then exits. I can't figure out how to update or reinstall the App Store from Amazon, so I put back the original version (Privacy Blocker saves these). Oh, look, Angry Birds works fine. Fuck that. I uninstall App Store; Angry Birds won't run, telling me I need the App Store app. Same goes for the Winamp app which I grabbed from Amazon (also free). No big deal, I remove those apps, then go grab Winamp from Google's app store. Free, no problem running it, no need for some intermediary grubbing my usage details. So, Amazon App Store, good for developers, less good for users.
  • true_religion 16y ago
    Did you try and remove the Google app store to see if its coupled with its apps?
    • jamesbritt 16y ago
      No. Good idea. I'd want to be sure I could reinstall it later, though. Well, assuming it isn't sinister spyware.
    • jamesbritt 16y ago
      A follow up: Did not remove the Google Market app, but I did force kill it, and saw no effect on starting or running other apps.