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		mid-kid on Nov 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Curation and decentralization is better than milli... Aside from the backup/restore functionality mentioned by the parent post, there's no way for them to do automatic updates or get similar system privileges like play store does, restricting a lot of functionality that play store can provide.

Hitton on Nov 29, 2022 [–]

Afaik the updates are possible since Android 12, it's one of the reasons I'm planning to update soon.

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