there are design issues with installing apps to sd cards. first is
offering a format/partitioning utility to create available space.
second would be figureing out which apps to install where. if someone
were to release 2 versions of an app like old shareware you would have
pirate issues.
eg. app_demo.apk app_full.apk
user installs app_full.apk to sdcard and then copies it to the
internet. i'm not saying this way is pirate proof, but life is about
keeping the honest people honest look at calif gun laws...
anyways, its the same reason we have to root our phones, is because
google cannot be held responcible for giving us this control. same
reason game manufactures use anticopy protection schemes that have
already been broken.
it is a way for google to protect themselves. if you brick your
phone rooting it, your fault. you brick your phone following an
official google tutorial, it becomes googles fault for telling you
from a business standpoint, it makes sence. i garrenty google thought
about sdcards for installing apps. they were trying to squeeze every
last bit of memory out of the phone.
On Feb 13, 4:41 pm, pesh...@gmail.com pesh...@gmail.com wrote:
I hope you guys can implement that in the next android updates. It is
really cool that all the applications are free, but the G1 phone
doesn't have a lot of on board memory, so please implement the feature
to install applications on the SD Card. That is the only comment I
have. A lot of people are Jailbreaking their phones just so they can
get to that feature. Please consider it. Thank you.
One more thing-If you can make it possible to save the browser cache
data on the SD card as well will be awesome.
Thank you again!
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