Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine? Date: 2 Dec 2024 11:15:22 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <12el9a4awtvsm$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> X-Trace: individual.net AVQOob3qgS0co1f1mZsHdwGkT6rvnHRMB1i/Ec/VrCRdFNP3k8 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:O0CBGYKCHBeR2ZiaWCCHbcE/eYE= sha256:oOZdeb+PmOyvuxto4yaqIkxePgEspGedh/x1rqMKrT0= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2240 Andy Burns wrote: > VanguardLH wrote: > > > I did not install the Skyica app. Don't need it. Typically I've > > already decided what I want before using the Play Store app. > > Sometimes The Play Store will hide an app, or claim it's not available > for a given device. Most recent example here, the new Google Weather > app, supposedly a Pixel exclusive, yet it refused to install on my > Pixel8a, I downloaded from apkmirror instead. > > Other Pixel exclusives like generating AI wallpaper,or managing > screenshots, I could probably force install them the same way, but ...meh. Or stupid geofencing methods. For example I've had cases where I couldn't install Australia-centric apps, because I was in The Netherlands and cases where I could not install such apps while I *was* in Australia, because the country settings of my Google Account were (obviously) set to The Netherlands (IIRC, one example of the latter was the app of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology). Go figure! As you mentioned, in most cases the problem could be solved by getting the APK from some APK archive site (I mostly used apkpure,com), After installing the APK, updating the app often *could* be done by the Play Store app.