Because you trusted them.
Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?
Submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-silently-removes-purchases-from-play-store-accounts/
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vexikron@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m gonna guess that it involves something in the Terms and Agreement that no one actually reads.
TwoGems@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Get a custom OS on Android and install free standing apks. Actually, many apks are hacked anyway. So find and just install them. No need to change OS. But rooting+custom OS might offer ways to make it way easier.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
f-droid and mabye aurora store
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Apple probably does the same thing. You pay 20 bucks for an app that gets taken down from the store: does the next phone get it still?
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IIRC there were iPhones being sold at exorbitant prices because they were in Airplane Mode and Apple hadn’t removed Flappy Bird from them after the developer removed it from the App Store.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 10 months ago
imagine selling a kidney to buy a phone and not even having a say what apps can go on it
dontwakethetrees@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Technically won’t be able to download from the app store but using applications like imazing to download it and as long as you previously owned it, Apple will restore your purchases.
I’ve been using a manga reader that got taken off the store around 2017, still use it and transfer it to each new device (works for both phone and iPad). The ad-free in-app purchase restores just fine too.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah - I have lots of apps that I paid for that have been delisted or aren’t compatible with my current model iPhone. I had a couple that were installed but got “offloaded” so I still have the icon but the app is gone forever :)
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
epic games tells us we can pull out of any purchase
corship@feddit.de 10 months ago
Epic games is retarded.
I bought rdr when it releases in PC there, and oh wonder the pic port wasn’t good at the beginning.
Tried to get it to run for the hours, including the launcher update and stuff like that.
No luck, and no refund because I “played” for now than two hours…
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Not that I’m really trying to defend Epic here, bust most stores with a two hour policy have a manual review process you can request, where you explain that your time spent was fiddle farting around trying to get it to work, no no avail.
Most of the time they make an exception.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
olny really fall guys is good and also i got fortnight because it was free and also some indie boat game
vox@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
most epic games are drm free btw
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So, what actually happened with Wayward Souls? Why was it removed?
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Seems to be Google’s enforcing of 64 bit binaries only? Seems they are hinting at that. Lots of android apps are 32 bit only, and Google is starting to ban them. Believe me, with a Pixel phone, you just don’t have a choice on the matter.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh. I didn’t know that was actually an issue under Android. I mean, this is all Java stuff, precompiled bytecode. I also have a Pixel phone, but never noticed anything in that direction.
hottari@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Coz you bought their NFT dumb dumb…
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That doesn’t make sense
Lightrider@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Fuckingcapitalists