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Re:GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and devel... by izacus on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:07AM (#24736625)
That's not true at all - Samsung, Huawei and other stores have the same feature set as Play store.
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Re:GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and devel... by wmf on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:24AM (#24736673)
I think the distinction is not Google vs. others but preinstalled (can do everything) vs. sideloaded (e.g. Epic/Amazon, can't do background install/update).
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Re:GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and devel... by izacus on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:31AM (#24736699)
Exactly - the store needs to be a privileged app. Unfortunately that will be fixed only in next iteration of Android :/
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Re:GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and devel... by jokowueu on Saturday October 10, 2020 @10:06AM (#24739088)
Next iteration ?!

Do you have any sources . Thank you

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Re:GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and devel... by MereInterest on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:20AM (#24736662)
Is that because users are free to install a different store, or because manufacturers are able to implement their own specially-privileged store as well?
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