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Subject: Re: Samsung account
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:40:07 -0700
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On 3/13/2024 1:08 PM, Richmond wrote:

> Samsung should decide what they want to do, replace google or leave
> it to google, it's a bit half-way house at the moment.

I think competition is good. I'm glad to have 2 stores to pick from.

> The store quite often says there are updates and then says it cannot
> update because the apps are from google. So why bother to notify?

Yup. Things can get confusing. Just go to the Play Store and update it.
I have another similar situation:

I have several Amazon Fire tablets that I sideloaded the Google Play
Store on. And sometimes the Google Play Store wants to update the Amazon
AppStore apps and the Amazon AppStore wants to update the Google Play
Store apps. Complicated. I solved it by not allowing either store to
automatically update any apps and do just it manually as needed.

The Amazon Fire OS is an older forked version of Android and so its
AppStore apps are often older versions of the same apps the Play Store
has. Thus sometimes I don't want the newer version updates.

IMO the Amazon tablets are the best in their price class and their only
fault was in lacking Google's facilities (like Gmail, the Chrome
browser, etc.).

BTW If anyone is interested in the conversion, Google it (of course).
It's very easy to do, just downloading 4 files and installing them...