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Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps?

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In article <ns3cb3$18ue$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Horace Algiers
<horace@horacealgiers.com> wrote:

> 
> > My guess: he's apt to be saying most people don't reset their phones (or
> > anything else, forf that matter) to factory defaults every month or so,
> > with concomitant need to re-install all apps and re-establish all
> > settings/options/preferences. YMMV, of course
> 
> Thanks for that clarification becuase I wasn't sure which it was.
> 
> BTW, rebuilding a phone back to normal is trivially easy if you *plan*
> ahead, just like rebuilding the OS on a desktop is easy if you plan ahead.
> 

it may be 'trivially easy' conceptually, but it's very time consuming
(especially with higher capacity devices) and completely pointless to
do it monthly or even yearly.

> For example, on a desktop, I *always* plan ahead by...
> a. Storing all installers in a given hierarchy
> b. Installing all programs in (a copy of) the same given hieararchy
> c. Using all menus in (another copy of) the same given hierarchy
> 
> For example:
> c:\data\software\{the hierarchy} for the installers
> c:\apps\{the hierarchy} for the programs
> c:\data\menu\{the hierarchary) for the menus
> 
> To re-install the user's data and apps is trivial since all I need to do is
> copy the data hierarchy to a safe place and then re-install, one by one,
> simply by going down the installer hierarchy.
> 
> It's even *easier* on a cellphone, simply because all the APKs are and data
> are *automatically* saved on Android on the external flash card (if you set
> it up correctly), so I already have a *saved* copy of everything that is
> unaffected by a factory reset!
> 
> The Android reset procedure doesn't require huge Internet mainframe
> servers, and it doesn't have *any* pain whatsoever associated with it.
> 
> Just click on the APKs, one by one, to set up the cellphone, and without
> need of Internet or a computer with hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of
> megabytes of bloatware, you're set up in minutes.
> 
> 1. You simply make a hierarchy of empty placeholder folders, e.g., 
> Desktop: {map, people, browser, buy, pic, audio, video, wifi, etc.}
> For example, here is my /extSdCard/data/software/video hierarchy:
> http://i.cubeupload.com/oWPTX3.png
> 
> NOTE: Multiple version of the same app from any repository can easily be
> saved, installed, tested, and the best one for your needs finally installed
> (whatever version you like best, all without any repositories being
> installed, least of all Google Play!
> 
> 2. When you install the app, the icon goes visibly wherever you want it to
> so, which, in this case, is in the top-left corner as shown here. 
> http://i.cubeupload.com/8Uvf6v.png
> 
> 3. You simply slide the app icon into the placeholder folders as shown
> here:
> http://i.cubeupload.com/508V7q.png
> 
> Even with setting up the app, it takes almost no time whatsoever to
> reconfigure an Android device, without the need of mainframe computers and
> home desktops - and the best part of this is that you always can use *any
> version* of the app that works with your operating system.

bullshit. it's actually very time consuming to restore a device no
matter what it is, particularly if you're doing it manually.

> You can have app APKs from any number of outside repositories, and you
> don't even need a Google Play account to re-install everything!
> 
> Any version of the app - and - any version of the operating system that
> works with your hardware.
> 
> Of course, on iOS, that's all *impossible*; iOS itself, as we've proven
> many times, is incapable of doing the *simplest* things, such as installing
> older versions even *with* the help of mainframe computers on the net and
> powerful desktops - and - worse - iOS is extremely limited itself, as it
> can't do *any* of this without the huge assistance of mainframe computers
> on the Internet and/or desktop computers (to do something as simple as
> restore a personal backup!).

trolling again, and as usual, complete nonsense.

it's actually very easy to restore an ios device from a backup, so easy
that it's just a button click and without needing any 'mainframe
computers on the net'.

> PS: I tapped on each screenshot to bluetooth them to my laptop while I was
> writing this note. iOS is so limited, even *that* simple task is impossible
> on iOS!

more trolling.

on ios, tapping a screenshot will send it via wifi, which is over 100x
faster than bluetooth.

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Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algier <horatio@horatio.net> - 2016-09-21 05:47 +0000
  Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-22 21:13 +0200
    Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-22 22:43 +0000
      Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-23 00:28 -0400
        Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 13:56 +0000
          Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-23 10:19 -0400
            Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 16:21 +0000
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-23 13:04 -0400
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? joe <none@domain.invalid> - 2016-09-23 15:54 -0500
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 23:22 +0000
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-23 19:25 -0400
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 23:37 +0000
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-23 23:37 +0000
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? AL <noemail@none.invalid.com> - 2016-09-23 20:20 -0700
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 01:26 -0400
                Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-24 16:31 +0000
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 01:12 -0400
          Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-24 06:57 +0200
            Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-24 16:31 +0000
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-26 19:53 +0200
          Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 01:09 -0400
            Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Horace Algiers <horace@horacealgiers.com> - 2016-09-24 16:31 +0000
              Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-09-24 18:17 -0400
      Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-23 08:24 +0200
        Re: Do you "Decline" or "Accept" Google regularly checking on your apps? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-09-23 10:17 +0100

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