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FYI Google keeps a big list of every app you've ever installed through Android Market/Play Store; it stays in "My Apps" even if you uninstall it.
by cookiecaper 14y ago
FYI Google keeps a big list of every app you've ever installed through Android Market/Play Store; it stays in "My Apps" even if you uninstall it.
- holri 14y agoI do not use Google products for this reason.
- Jebus 14y agoYou are not alone =) The only Google product I was still using is Youtube. But now it won't let me log in unless I give in my phone number, so that's it. Fuck Google.
- hoi 14y agoApple do the same for the iPhone/iPad/iPod.
- holri 14y agoI do not use Apple products for this reason.
- csmattryder 14y agoPrivacy aside, if this feature didn't exist, you'd have people complaining (hey, even i'd probably be one of them) that applications they paid for are obscured from being found again.
- cageface 14y agoThe big difference here is that you can sideload other apps if you want. So you have the convenience of a centralized app source without the insane restriction that you need the consent of some corporate third party to install software on your (mobile) computer.
- ZoFreX 14y agoBut you can sideload other apps on Windows 8. You can bypass smartscreen if you want to override it, or you can turn it off entirely. What's the difference?
- VMG 14y agoWhich homes in handy when you get a new phone...