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You can now install or update up to four apps concurrently from the Google Play Store

www.gsmarena.com You can now install or update up to four apps concurrently from the Google Play Store

That's one more than App Store downloads for iOS users. This past weekend, we reported that Google Play Store now lets Android users install or update up...

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That's cool. Now, when something like that comes to fdroid, I will be using it. Fuck google

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- im not so sure about fdroid long term
  
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  I've been leaning more and more towards using fdroid just to find apps and then using Obtainium to install them directly from source.
  
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  Hell, it's the only App Store I will even touch.
  
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  why?
  
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Wow, amazing, so convenient Google... Now return the search to main screen; dickheads!

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- Not sure if its an an test that I'm in, but search is now its own tab on the bottom available from all screens.
  
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  Yeah, and it's stupid, just added unnecessary click for no gain.
  
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What's the point? Updating four apps four times as slowly simultaneously is the same as updating four apps at four times the speed consecutively, and you would have the same internet speed either way.

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- In my experience (not in Android apps but in Arch Linux updates) parallel downloads are almost always waaay faster. Magnitudes faster. Using multiple cores? Is it the bottleneck actually enforced by the server? I don't know, I just know it works.
  
  And if they did it, it's because it works on Android too.
  
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- I don't get it either. It seems like getting the first app as fast as possible and proceeding to install it while the next one is being downloaded would be the fastest way, but maybe I'm missing something
  
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  That's not how it was done before, though. It wouldn't download update A, start installing A, then trigger downloading update B while A was installing. A would have to finish installing before B could even start downloading.
  
  Especially for smaller updates, the overhead of the network handshaking to start the download can actually make doing 3/4 downloads at once faster than sequencing them. For larger updates, it matters less, but it's not a negative.
  
  You can still use an app while the update is downloading. You only can't while the update is installing, and installations still have to happen sequentially (limitation of Android). It only really matters if you want to specifically use an update right away, but then you can just manually trigger the update for just that app.
  
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I can update infinite packages at the same time in pacman tho 😎

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Do I have to decline providing a method of payment 4 times for free apps, or just the once?

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Mine only seems to do 3 at a time.

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- That's the limit
  
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HOLY FUCK THIS IS AMAZING!

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I'll never use this. Who the fuck does need this? I download a new app maybe once every 6 months.

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- For updates? It works for updates too. I hope you're updating apps more than every 6 months for security reasons.
  
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- This is useful for updates so you're not bottlenecked as much (if you don't have automatic background updates set up).
  
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  Like they ever work xd
  
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