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posted by [personal profile] ewx at 10:08am on 17/10/2012

My main uses for my phone's mobile data (or small tablet, depending how you look at it) are fairly standard online computer uses - email, lj/twitter/etc, web, SSH - but from anywhere; plus navigation. It gets used for ebook reading too but that's much less dependent on cell data connectivity.

It'd be much less useful if it was actually the size of things actually sold as tablets, since I'd be less likely to have it with me all the time.

This corresponds to about the last week. The G+ and Tumblr data usage figures are rather disproportionate considering how much I actually use those apps.

I have a £10/month subscription with a data limit higher than I ever reach.

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posted by [personal profile] ewx at 11:56am on 17/10/2012

no single unified App Store

I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind with that remark. Apart from manually installing the occasional Humble Bundle game I use only the Google store (“Google Play” as it is now called) and I wasn't aware that there was anything else comparable to it for Android. I've yet to encounter any indication I'm missing anything at any rate.

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posted by [personal profile] crazyscot at 07:08pm on 17/10/2012
The point is that you can get your apps from anywhere, so there's no single catalogue; and do aspiring app authors publish?
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posted by [personal profile] ewx at 08:04am on 18/10/2012
Err, well, you can get them from anywhere but I’m not clear what problem you think this causes. If you want a wide choice in a single place then the Google store is just that.
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posted by [personal profile] crazyscot at 05:10am on 19/10/2012
I wasn't aware of Google Play, ta.

I think the root of my perceived problem is finding the killer app that makes my life complete, for suitable values of killer and complete. If they're all in one place then I can at least do targeted keyword searches for whatever goat-floating app I think I want, provided my search-fu doesn't desert me. If they're simply out there on the net, the finding problem seems harder. The notion of browsing a single app store also appeals, though the idea that there are hundreds of thousands of apps out there already doesn't...

Deciding what it is I want from apps is an orthogonal problem.

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