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I'm interested but don't want to use the "play" store. Can you provide some other download link?

by zanethomas 12y ago

ikt 12y ago
Why don't you want to use the play store? Just wondering is all.
- niklasni1 12y ago
  Personally, I don't have Google Apps on my phone at all. If it's not in F-Droid or available as an apk from the developer, it doesn't get installed.
  - eli 12y ago
    That seems limiting. Is it because you don't trust Google?
    - timboslice 12y ago
      could be a custom ROM without the google binaries
      - niklasni1 12y ago
        It's just CyanogenMod
    - junto 12y ago
      You are forced to have a Google account to use Google Play. Once you have a Google account on your phone it is privacy game over.
      - eli 12y ago
        I think that's a little bombastic. So is that a custom ROM or stock Android with no account set? Seems like if you deeply distrust Google you probably wouldn't want to run Android at all.
        junto 12y ago
        You misunderstand me. I was simply articulating what I assumed the poster meant by his comment: Personally, I don't have Google Apps on my phone at all. If it's not in F-Droid or available as an apk from the developer, it doesn't get installed. I personally have a stock Nexus 4 and accept that I'm simply a Google commodity. I accept that by having a Google Account on my phone means that Google are tracking everything I do, who I talk to, who I message, every website I visit and every opinion and iota of information about me, even some that they have extrapolated about me that I personally didn't realise, Google already knows. I accept that if Google knows this, the NSA can also get hold of this information relatively easily. However, I don't work for any company of NSA interest. I have no threatening political or religious affiliations. I don't pose a threat to the status quo. I am not a wolf. I am a sheep. Therefore, my privacy can be traded for free Google features - slurp... @niklasni1 though probably does care, which is why he doesn't use Google Play, because then he would need a Google account on his phone, that subsequently would be tracked by Google wherever he goes. Maybe @niklasni1 has a networking job for a European satellite provider that the NSA finds interesting. Maybe he is worried about being tasked. In which case, it isn't bombastic at all.
    - niklasni1 12y ago
      Yeah. It should be noted that I'm glued to my laptop most of the time, so I mostly think of my phone as a computer with a small screen and crappy input method.
- zanethomas 12y ago
  Custom ROM, I'd rather not be sucked into the google 'ecosystem'.
pacofvf 12y ago
there are many services that download apks from play store, but beware that doing so you violate google's TOS

I'm interested but don't want to use the "play" store. Can you provide some other download link?

ikt 12y ago

Why don't you want to use the play store? Just wondering is all.

niklasni1 12y ago
Personally, I don't have Google Apps on my phone at all. If it's not in F-Droid or available as an apk from the developer, it doesn't get installed.
- eli 12y ago
  That seems limiting. Is it because you don't trust Google?
  - timboslice 12y ago
    could be a custom ROM without the google binaries
    - niklasni1 12y ago
      It's just CyanogenMod
  - junto 12y ago
    You are forced to have a Google account to use Google Play. Once you have a Google account on your phone it is privacy game over.
    - eli 12y ago
      I think that's a little bombastic. So is that a custom ROM or stock Android with no account set? Seems like if you deeply distrust Google you probably wouldn't want to run Android at all.
      - junto 12y ago
        You misunderstand me. I was simply articulating what I assumed the poster meant by his comment: Personally, I don't have Google Apps on my phone at all. If it's not in F-Droid or available as an apk from the developer, it doesn't get installed. I personally have a stock Nexus 4 and accept that I'm simply a Google commodity. I accept that by having a Google Account on my phone means that Google are tracking everything I do, who I talk to, who I message, every website I visit and every opinion and iota of information about me, even some that they have extrapolated about me that I personally didn't realise, Google already knows. I accept that if Google knows this, the NSA can also get hold of this information relatively easily. However, I don't work for any company of NSA interest. I have no threatening political or religious affiliations. I don't pose a threat to the status quo. I am not a wolf. I am a sheep. Therefore, my privacy can be traded for free Google features - slurp... @niklasni1 though probably does care, which is why he doesn't use Google Play, because then he would need a Google account on his phone, that subsequently would be tracked by Google wherever he goes. Maybe @niklasni1 has a networking job for a European satellite provider that the NSA finds interesting. Maybe he is worried about being tasked. In which case, it isn't bombastic at all.
  - niklasni1 12y ago
    Yeah. It should be noted that I'm glued to my laptop most of the time, so I mostly think of my phone as a computer with a small screen and crappy input method.
zanethomas 12y ago
Custom ROM, I'd rather not be sucked into the google 'ecosystem'.

pacofvf 12y ago

there are many services that download apks from play store, but beware that doing so you violate google's TOS