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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg wrote:

[Most stuff already settled with Bob.]

> > The Play Store app is even a *required* app. Without it, the phone is
> > basically useless.
> 
> Well *a* store app is required, but not necessarily *the* Play store 
> app, some manufacturers substitute their own, I would avoid one that did.

  Are you sure they are *substituting* the (Google) Play Store app, not
just providing an *additional* app for *their* (the manufacturer's)
'store'?

  For example Samsung is doing the latter, i.e. an *additional* app for
the *Samsung* store.