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>>lkrubn+(OP)
Or Amazon video on Android device I have -- in order to have play prime videos it told me to disable app source checking and side-load some .apk file, which will then help me get the Amazon video apk file... or something.

Yeah forget that. At first I thought it was a joke of some sort. But I guess that's how you are supposed to do it.

I'll just stick to Netflix and watch videos there. Somehow that manages to work without side-loading a bunch of crap.

>>rdtsc+p7
"some .apk file" being the Amazon store. It's annoying but it's not nonsense. The store will then notify you about updates and perform them.

It's half google's fault for not allowing the amazon store app to be listen in Play.

>>Dylan1+U9
Why is that Google's fault? Amazon could use the Play Store to update the app, the same way that Netflix, Hulu, etc. does. Amazon doesn't want to because they want people to use their own Android platform. Except their Android platform is awful. They have no idea how to run a store (which is a hell of a liability for an ecommerce company, but their infrastructure and fulfillment processes are so top notch and their margins so small that everyone just routes around it when it comes to buying books or whatever else). They make regular Android OEMs look prompt in how long it takes them to incorporate updates.

>>cwyers+ka
It's more that google's main benefit with their store is not having arbitrary restrictions, so the ones they do have stick out.

Oh you want to make a youtube player that acts like every browser in the world, with the ability to minimize? Banned.

>>Dylan1+Pa
Are you really surprised that Google has policies like this?