AppBrain Was Fun

[jefboyardee]

AppBrain used to be a superior alternative to the Play Market. It required to have its Fast Web machine running in the background, but that was no big deal, considering how slick it all worked.

But in the last year or so, in my case at least, Fast Web stopped working, meaning downloading wouldn

 

[chanchan05]

AppBrain stopped using FastWeb. They themselves discarded it.

 

[jefboyardee]

That was interesting news to me. But I decided to reinstall AppBrain, give it another shot, and what was the first thing it wanted me to do? Yep, install Fast Web. And I did, and it couldn’t log, just like before... all gone again.

 

[fdbryant3]

Pretty much as soon as the Play store adopted the ability to push apps to the phone I abandoned Appbrain.

 

[jefboyardee]

I’ve only been droiding for two years, but I could always do that. Maybe things were different before that...

 

[Hadron]

2.5 years in my case, and I remember the feature being added