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Amazon App Store Thread - Daily Free Apps

OstrichSaK said:
Why would you bump a thread that hadn't been posted to in 8 days to say it's time to not post to it and let it die? :confused:
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LOL, the person that bumped it (which cause me to post that) had their post deleted afterwards:)
tcat007 said:
Probably because it was a sticky, and he wanted it to die... only way to do that is remove the sticky and let us know. Not a big deal, since no one seems to search for what they want, I'm sure a new thread about Amazon Apps will show up within a day (or less).
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Well i would hope that it would get reported so that we can combine them. Like ostrich said... it had been 8 days since this thread was posted in.

If someone would want to volunteer to keep the OP updated every day i will gladly make them the OP of the thread....
 
Holydoc said:
Does anyone know anything about this app? Says you can update Word and Excel documents. Anyone try this yet?
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It seemed to open the office files I had just fine. You can edit things, but its a little akward on the phone for anything more then a quick edit.
 
I was about to d/l OfficeSuite Pro, on the general premise of "it's a $15 app, I'd better get it". But I haven't, because of the permissions it wants. Since the permissions include "start at boot", I can't even d/l it and then decide later.

Why on earth would a document mangement utility need:

* Your messages (read SMS/MMS)
* Your accounts (manage the accounts list, use the authentication credentials)
* Sys Tools/Start at boot (why slow down my phone for something I'm not using?)
* Sys Tools/reorder & retrieve running applications (why does it care what else is running?)

I'll give it a pass on Internet access, SD card access, and the little things. And Phone State/Identity is almost universal these days. But is there any good reason I should give it the other types of access?
 
RobertB-DC said:
I was about to d/l OfficeSuite Pro, on the general premise of "it's a $15 app, I'd better get it". But I haven't, because of the permissions it wants. Since the permissions include "start at boot", I can't even d/l it and then decide later.

Why on earth would a document mangement utility need:

* Your messages (read SMS/MMS)
* Your accounts (manage the accounts list, use the authentication credentials)
* Sys Tools/Start at boot (why slow down my phone for something I'm not using?)
* Sys Tools/reorder & retrieve running applications (why does it care what else is running?)

I'll give it a pass on Internet access, SD card access, and the little things. And Phone State/Identity is almost universal these days. But is there any good reason I should give it the other types of access?
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CM7's ability to revoke individual permissions FTW!
 
RobertB-DC said:
I was about to d/l OfficeSuite Pro, on the general premise of "it's a $15 app, I'd better get it". But I haven't, because of the permissions it wants. Since the permissions include "start at boot", I can't even d/l it and then decide later.

Why on earth would a document mangement utility need:

* Your messages (read SMS/MMS)
* Your accounts (manage the accounts list, use the authentication credentials)
* Sys Tools/Start at boot (why slow down my phone for something I'm not using?)
* Sys Tools/reorder & retrieve running applications (why does it care what else is running?)

I'll give it a pass on Internet access, SD card access, and the little things. And Phone State/Identity is almost universal these days. But is there any good reason I should give it the other types of access?
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It uses accounts to log in to google docs I'm assuming but I'm also baffled as to why it needs the other ones. It also has a constantly running service. I ultimately unistalled it for those reasons, since the quickoffice that came with the phone seems to do just fine.
 
The fact that it's a running service is what irks me. I'm a bit of a bean counter when out comes to RAM, so I'm hard pressed to justify why it needs to stay running from boot. Looks like I'm sticking with Docs to Go
 
RyanB said:
The fact that it's a running service is what irks me. I'm a bit of a bean counter when out comes to RAM, so I'm hard pressed to justify why it needs to stay running from boot. Looks like I'm sticking with Docs to Go
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Well it doesn't actually stay running the whole time of course... in systempanle it doesn't list it as even being queued, ie its not even inactive right now. In battery left widget it shows up in the 'partial wake' category as having ran for a total of 1min 20 secs since noon (11 hours ago) when i installed it
 
I installed the free OfficeSuite Pro yesterday & received my first Airpush spam notification, this morning. Anyone else seeing these?

It could simply be a coincidence, my phone also updated about 6 market apps last night & I'm trying to narrow down the list of suspects... :mad:
 
Install the app "Air Push Detector". Those notifications can wait weeks to show up, so it may be nothing you installed last night. Be sure to comment in the Market, and start a thread (then email the link to said thread to the dev)
 
Ricochet said:
I installed the free OfficeSuite Pro yesterday & received my first Airpush spam notification, this morning. Anyone else seeing these?

It could simply be a coincidence, my phone also updated about 6 market apps last night & I'm trying to narrow down the list of suspects... :mad:
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Are you seeing this?
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/435536-green-star-spam.html


I doubt it's office suite. They couldn't do that in a $15 app.

Please past in my thread if you are seeing the same thing.
 
Today's free app is a marble rolling game called "Seven Stars" that looked interesting, until I saw that it wants "Read system log files" permission. Are you serious? A game has absolutely ZERO reason to read the log files, which I've heard leave you pretty much naked in the Privacy department.

I'm really getting annoyed that I don't find out about the Android permissions until after I've burned bandwidth downloading the apps. Is there a way I'm missing to review permissions *before* downloading? Also, I wonder if there's any way to get rid of the apps in the "apps to download and install" list, because all of them are ones that I've considered and rejected because of invasive permission requests.
 
Well, couldn't a user look up that day's free app in the Android Market? IIRC, you can see the permissions of apps offered there, before downloading. Also, I believe you can google where on the SD card those apps download to (after "purchase" and before install).
 
Ricochet said:
I installed the free OfficeSuite Pro yesterday & received my first Airpush spam notification, this morning. Anyone else seeing these?

It could simply be a coincidence, my phone also updated about 6 market apps last night & I'm trying to narrow down the list of suspects... :mad:
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For the record here, Ricochet and I are in agreement that the spam notifications were coming from Traffic Jam Free and not OfficeSuite Pro.
 
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