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No, that just means that you don't get constantly nagged to update the (useless and space-consuming) google play app, which went from "useful" (at 23MB) to WTF is better?, (at 470 Mb).
If you think google* is your friend, you're out of your mind.
* Or apple or microsoft
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OG seemed to think Chrome (under Android) required at least some part of the Google Play store. How will that work if Google Play is missing?
As for trusting Google (or Apple or Microsoft)... at a certain point (short of writing your own OS and every single app and service) you have to trust somebody to at least some extent or life becomes pretty challenging.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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From what I can tell, all the google play app does for you is nag you about updates, and connect with google servers to log scores in games you play.
Once it's installed, you can't remove it, and it keeps getting bigger and bigger (without seeming to do anything worth doing).
You can reduce its ridiculous size by "downgrading" it to the factory-installed version, after which it nags you on start-up that none of your apps will work unless you update it -- but that's BS, because they do all work. And you still get notifications about updates.
It can probably be installed from the play store, anyway, if a person enjoys bloatware.
And no, I've never trusted google or apple at all, and I've been battered, over the last few years, into not trusting microsoft.
Is that a problem?
Do you trust banks or insurance companies to look after your interests and make good decisions? You don't have to trust the @rseholes who run a company, to use its products.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nope - the version I ordered (now out of stock again) says:
Quote: Product Notes:
1. Download your favorite apps through the Google Play Store or Market installed.
I suspect it's a Chinese / English translation problem in the original site.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It seems all of your problems are caused by technology (or maybe those are the only ones you post about on CP) 
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I had a similar experience when I got my Amazon Fire last December (on special for only $39).
Anyways, I really wanted google docs since I have a bluetooth keyboard and all my stuff is in google docs and I wanted to be able to go anywhere (coffee shop etc.) and open up google docs and write.
I was able to get APKs off a running simulator transfer them over and sideload onto the Fire.
I can't believe it but it's been working for over a year now. I never tried to get Chrome working on there though. I just accepted Silk. Good luck.
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You've got i backwards. It's a Google thing to cripple the competition. Drinking their koolaid is all or nothing; if you want to replace even one piece of their proprietary crap you can't include any of it. That includes play services and all of google's apps; and without play services most 3rd party apps won't work either anymore. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I remember when GalaSoft first came out. Small, easy to use, easy to maintain. I just downloaded the source for the latest version. OMG! What he calls "Light" isn't anything close to "light" any more.
So, does anyone know of an alternative to GalaSoft Messenger?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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You do realise that there's so much code because he is catering for multiple platforms don't you? The code for the WPF version is still straightforward. Just use NuGet to install it and job done.
This space for rent
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What were three major catalysts in the paradigm shift from client based desktop applications to cloud based??
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Doing homework heh?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Trolling, trolling, trolling
Those trolls just keep on rolling, hoorah!
No need to understand em, just flag 'em, mark 'em, bann 'em ...
 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I was thinking this[^] 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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BASIC, CSS and Crystal Reports.
Oh, I read "cataclysmic" 
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Quote: And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring MAINFRAME passed out of all knowledge.
Now it's back!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Cirrus
Cumulonimbus
and....
Damn, can't remember the third... 9th grade Earth Science has failed me!
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It makes it easier for the Russian Federation malefactors (and other governments, including our own,) to hack.
__________________
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Sorry, I've been working too long as a network techie, so for me a Catalyst is a Cisco Catalyst switch. Old sh*t, and probably not relevant to your question...
And by the way, why aren't *technical* questions banned in the Lounge as well as *coding* questions. Or is it? Long time since I read the rules, sorry... 
Peter the small turnip
(1) It Has To Work. --RFC 1925[^]
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It was only one; from a rich environment, into the hype.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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According to this [^]
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Greed, greed, and greed.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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The thread below about programming books got me thinking about how much I still love to code even though I don't do as much as I used to at work (busy herding cats people) but still play with the new stuff in my own time.
However, if I know I have some coding to do at work, I still get excited and can't wait to start. And that's after nearly thirty years of doing the job.
Do you still love your job or are you getting jaded? I think JSOP is given his earlier post!
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They hired me as a programmer to write code, and now I'm nothing but a script monkey. And that's after 35 years of coding.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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