Play is partly responsible. they allow the compatibility crap to exist in the first place. it's odd how they're the only one though. tons of other app markets don't do that and it makes for a less infuriating experience, they also save the APK in the download folder for no need to download again or be connected to the internet if you chose to reinstall something later. Play removes a lot of that and has the most ugly UI to date. Android Market would be preferable if it ran on Jelly Bean (tried, it crashes). the UI is a bit dated but it worked fine. heck, even the very first Google Play Store worked fine. it wasn't until they revamped the UI to a very dated 1980s DOS style GUI (seriously, does no one see how flat design is nothing short of a rehash of early computer GUIs? or are most users too young to recall MS Windows 1.x? or AOL 4.0? will we start seeing low resolution, low PPI screens return because most flat UIs are only displaying 4-16 colors and simple graphics!) that the Play Store started having more and more issues that to this day Google refuses to fix.
I had to use Play Store once last night to install an app to enable the secret menu in my phone to go LTE Only so it wouldn't drop back to 3G, and to make it easier than entering the code into the dialer, so i used it that one time. right out of the box, i had a 4G LTE connection, yet it said 'no connection retry'. go to settings, clear data, uninstall updates, retry. it worked fine, installed the app. tried searching for pure giggles, it still crashes when you scroll down far enough into your all apps list (says Sorry, Google Play has stopped if you just look down long enough). even when you set the thing to never update apps, it tries anyway. i keep it disabled when i can, because it turns things i switched off back on. hate the blasted thing. hardly use it at all. also can't stand how Google stopped allowing the menu button to work in favor of a menu shortcut on the upper left. like i want an additional fingerprint smudge when i have a perfectly useable hardware key!
What i don't get is why Google's own Bloatware, which is preinstalled on the Nexus phones as well as installed as third party apps on all others, doesn't get anger in the same way that Samsung's bloatware does. they both do the same job! so why is it ok to have a phone filled to the brim with Chrome, Play Store, Play Music, Play Books, etc but bad if it has Samsung Apps, S-Voice, Samsung Books, S Memo, etc? i don't get it. in my experience, which i know is subjective, but still, Samsung's versions work far better and more stable than Google's. Google Now's voice control still cannot toggle Wifi on or off. says 'this feature is not supported'. S-Voice has been able to do that since the S2. either way, TouchWiz or Nexus, remove all the Google Apps, and you got tons more storage than you think. i can get 3GB back just by rooting and removing all the GApps APKs.
