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They are completely free and you don't have to pay for every upgrade. They're open source, just get the builds from f-droid instead of the paid play store buil
by IceWreck 4y ago
They are completely free and you don't have to pay for every upgrade.
They're open source, just get the builds from f-droid instead of the paid play store builds. You can still pay to support the developer.
- jqpabc123 4y agoShould have been more clear --- by "upgrade" I meant a hardware change. Phone hardware is designed to be replaced every 2-3 years. And I already pointed out the definition of "free" at work here.
- NoahKAndrews 4y agoGoogle Play app purchases are tied to your account, not your phone. You don't need to try purchase when you get a new phone.
- jqpabc123 4y agoCan I migrate them to my work phone? In any case, I don't use "Google Play".
- josephcsible 4y agoThen where did you get them that you paid for them?
- jqpabc123 4y agoRead carefully --- I never said that I did.
- josephcsible 4y agoIf you don't use Google Play and didn't pay for the apps, then why are you complaining? You can just use the ones from F-Droid, which will give you all of the functionality and no nags for free.
- jqpabc123 4y agoWonder how I got nag screens? Must have been my mistake.
- fartcannon 4y agoYes, they are open source and free on f-droid.
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- cuteboy19 4y agoyou can log in with your personal Google account for a few mins, install the app and logout. E: not very useful if you don't use "Google Play" Store
- jqpabc123 4y agoI have a "Google free" phone --- meaning it is totally stripped of all Googly things and Google Play in particular.
- vorpalhex 4y agoYes - do a build and throw the apk onto the new phone.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI did not know that about android. You can’t migrate your apps from an old phone to a new phone?
- Majestic121 4y agoYes you can, I'm not sure what was the issue of OP but all apps (including paid) are linked to your google account, so they are available on any phone linked to your google account
- Aachen 4y agoNote GP asked about Android and you're speaking of a Google Play account that you can login to from more than one device to access its content including previously purchased content. I guess for most people they see Google Play as an integral part of Android... ask Huawei what happens if Google can't do business with you or what if you don't like google so much. Of course, one would be even worse off with Apple where there is no decent open source option to speak of, which GP is most likely to be locked into.
- josephcsible 4y agoYou can copy apps off of Android phones even without Google Play.
- Aachen 4y agoYeah but it's not a migration. E.g. you don't get access to your data in many (most?) cases, often thanks to security consultants like myself who see their scanning tool warn that backups are enabled for an app and put a recommendation in the report to not let users access their own data. (FTR I've never done that, but had colleagues that I had to argue with...) Just yesterday in an OpenStreetMap chat, I had to disappoint a user who wanted to access a locally stored recording in some app. They didn't have root and so they couldn't access it from outside the app. Backups aka accessing your own data is one of the biggest problems I have as an android user, with as only solution rooting the device and treating it like a normal desktop OS where you also have root, except various apps start to complain when you do so. Apple really has the nicer solution here via the iTunes software.
- WaitWaitWha 4y agoMaybe this is the root of the problem and contention in this thread. It seems even people who are reasonably technically savvy, as demonstrated by some posts, think that it requires various payments. How did they come to this conclusion?
- vorpalhex 4y agoThe Play Store isn't free to distribute in. The developers, reasonably, want Play Store users to help recoup that distribution cost. If you get it from Fdroid or build it yourself, it's free.
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