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Site That Has APK Files?

westfall90

westfall90

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was wondering if there might be a site somewhere around that has APK files for apps? I have a Samsung Galaxy Prevail and I'm wanting to get the newest version of the GasBuddy APK file. I currently have 1.16.
 
boost mobile has gasbuddy blocked because the phone comes with it's own gas app called poynt.

I found my current version on a link someone posted here.
 
How is it possible for a mobile operator to block an app on the market? Why would they bother? What are you smoking?
 
I'm not smoking anything at the moment thanks for asking.

They would bother because they have a DIFFERENT gas app that a company has paid for them to put on their phone. In other words it makes them MONEY.

If you use the market app provided with the prevail it will not show you gasbuddy, nor will it show redlaser. If you try to use the browser to download it, it will tell you it is not compatible with your specific handset and not allow you to.

If you put the apk directly on your phone and install it, it works perfectly fine.
 
That, if i may say so, is completely F***ed up behaviour on the part of your carrier. What carrier/phone is that? Just so that, you know, i can avoid them like the plague.

Have you tried downloading from appbrain or androlib? Are they actually blocking anything with that apk filename from downloading or is it just the link to the market?
 
What carrier is this? What device? This would actually be huge news against Google for letting them pull something like that... Some devices sometimes glitch showing as incompatible. Also Wi-Fi only tablets may not have access to the Market.

See here on GasBuddy's website:
GasBuddy App for Androids - Gasbuddy Gas Prices

I dont *think* the carrier is blocking you, but it might be an incompatibility. Some have noticed success downloading with Amazon.
 
daveybaby said:
How is it possible for a mobile operator to block an app on the market? Why would they bother? What are you smoking?
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Sadly they do block apps that they don't want their customers to use. I know AT&T blocks all of the tethering app from the market. There are a number of other carriers that block certain apps from you because it conflicts with their policies or whatever.
 
They would bother because they have a DIFFERENT gas app that a company has paid for them to put on their phone. In other words it makes them MONEY.
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The thing that I don't understand is, that company already made the money from the carrier by allowing them to put it in the OS, why would they care if you actually used their app or not? They already got paid.
 
sitlet said:
The thing that I don't understand is, that company already made the money from the carrier by allowing them to put it in the OS, why would they care if you actually used their app or not? They already got paid.
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But then the advertiser would pay them less for putting the app on the phone.

If the carrier can tell the advertiser that they won't let a competing app on the phone, it makes the advertiser's app more valuable.
 
But I havent heard of any examples of this other than tethering... and that was HUGE news in the Android tech/blog world. I'd reckon this would be even bigger news at it's not related to data consumtion/tethering plans but anti-competative behavoir.


This would really surprise me. Not impossible, but I'd be pretty shocked.
 
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