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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: A good thing or a bad thing
Date: 9 Apr 2025 17:29:30 GMT
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AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
> On 4/9/25 8:35 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> >Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
> 
> >> ...free apps can be
> >> downloaded again from the original source.
> 
> >  I have no beef in this (non-)discussion, but you can only download
> >again, if the "original source" still exists!
> >
> >  That's often - and probably even most of the time - the case for
> >software downloaded from Apple's App Store. But in some cases, an app
> >might be withdrawn from the App Store, which means it is no longer
> >available for download/installation on a new device.
> 
> My problem in the (on-topic for this Android group) Play Store is not so
>  much apps disappearing but rather the 'won't work on this device' label.
>  And they won't even let me try. 

  If it's a free (as in no-cost/not-paid) app, you can often find it on
APK archive sites and try it that way. That's what I did for alleged
incompatabilities, geo-fencing, etc.. My main source was/is apkpure.com
where you can also search on the 'id=' which you see in the Google Play
URL.

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> Gosh, I've made it over a week now without any Windows stuff in the house.
>  Haven't missed it a bit...

  Are you for real!? What on earth will you do with all that spare time?
Don't you know that we're all *entitled* to problems!?

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