Re: Why do people use the Google Play Store search engine?

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> 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.