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Anyone use Amazon AppStore for Android?
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Hawkson
Title: I AM AN ASSASSIN (SHH)
Posts: 1,791
Registered: 2001-10-23 22:57:09
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Anyone use Amazon AppStore for Android?
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Subject is question, question is subject.
So many of these apps require more permissions than any sane person should give them, and don't get me started on the built-in apps that you can't uninstall(without rooting, which I'm too lazy to bother with for my Galaxy Nexus because I've got it how I like it, and I don't feel like wiping it.)
Are these any better?
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Chogram
Posts: 945
Registered: 2001-8-23 02:52:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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No.
But generally the reviews are better about having 500 people telling you not to download it for whatever reason.
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the_great_intex
Title: This is what cool looks like
Posts: 1,669
Registered: 2002-6-27 08:18:27
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Anyone use Amazon AppStore for Android?
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I like it. Easy way to get apps for free everyday (there's a app they offer for free every day that changes)
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Hawkson
Title: I AM AN ASSASSIN (SHH)
Posts: 1,791
Registered: 2001-10-23 22:57:09
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Anyone use Amazon AppStore for Android?
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Sigh.
F***ing codemonkeys thinking that an app that has no business accessing contacts, for example, needs to access them - and then people installing them.
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Chogram
Posts: 945
Registered: 2001-8-23 02:52:32
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Anyone use Amazon AppStore for Android?
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Hawkson posted:
Sigh.
F***ing codemonkeys thinking that an app that has no business accessing contacts, for example, needs to access them - and then people installing them.
I don't know anything about programming Android apps...
Why would it ever need the contacts?(edit: If it weren't an app designed around them)
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Hawkson
Title: I AM AN ASSASSIN (SHH)
Posts: 1,791
Registered: 2001-10-23 22:57:09
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Date Posted:
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Subject:
Anyone use Amazon AppStore for Android?
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Chogram posted:
I don't know anything about programming Android apps...
Why would it ever need the contacts?(edit: If it weren't an app designed around them)
Precisely.
That's the entire point.
And I'm not saying I could code them either. And I'm the first to admit that, but there are some of these things that have no business whatsoever accessing various things.
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Caoilin
Title: Instigator
Posts: 2,278
Registered: 2001-11-20 00:03:45
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Anyone use Amazon AppStore for Android?
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every app asks for permission to do everything, i've noticed.
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aon_mixed
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Posts: 2,317
Registered: 2002-8-19 07:30:30
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Surge_MT
Posts: 213
Registered: 2001-5-9 11:10:00
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Anyone use Amazon AppStore for Android?
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If you collect tons of FAotD, as I do, you eventually end up with way too many apps to manage - even if you're diligent about looking at the permissions/feint/etc. requirements of each app at purchase time, I've found that the apps have updates on a fairly regular basis (maybe 10% of apps/week). You'd have to be very careful about looking at the changes for each of the updates after the purchase, because a post-purchase update sometimes adds new permissions. It gets to be a headache to manage.
Now I don't install most them on my phone, instead I install the apps on my son's tablet, since there is no phone/contacts/or any other personal information for them to mine from it. He's not even allowed to play with it with the wireless turned on, so none of the apps have access to the internet.
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aon_mixed
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Posts: 2,317
Registered: 2002-8-19 07:30:30
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Date Posted:
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i am the same way, i put them on the B&N Nook color and rarely turn on the wireless.
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