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so an android phone without the store? intriguing. at that point you might as well switch to a dumbphone. are dumb phones still a thing?
by rantwasp 5y ago
so an android phone without the store? intriguing. at that point you might as well switch to a dumbphone. are dumb phones still a thing?
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agoaurora store is a thing.
- bozzcl 5y agoAnd F-Droid. And there’s plenty of sites to download APKs outside of the Play Store, though I don’t know how reliable they are.
- mackrevinack 5y agoeven just extracting the apk's and side loading then is good enough for 95% my use cases. there are show that key you extract, but you would still want something that is trustworthy though. tasker is what I've been using lately and you can automate the process a bit more. i turned off auto updates in the play store years ago after i got stuck with an app that had some bug in it, where it was working fine before the update. now i only update and app if something is broken or if i really need the new features it offers.
- notdang 5y agoThere are plenty of other stores to chose from. The problem here is that there are some apps that don't work without Google services, and those are the apps that you need the most: banking apps, payment apps, Uber, etc.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agoAurora store lets you use play store apps. There are a minority that refuse to install from there but thats less than .5%
- dooglius 5y agoI use Uber with this setup just fine.