{"id":2031,"date":"2010-07-24T13:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T20:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:24","slug":"sprint-took-away-my-download-tab-from-the-android-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/sprint-took-away-my-download-tab-from-the-android-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprint took away my download tab from the Android Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do not like having my apps on my phone change over night without me clicking so much as an OK button. \u00c2\u00a0This morning, I open my phone to search the market – and there it is – “Sprint” – right where my downloads tab was. \u00c2\u00a0I’m not ok with this. \u00c2\u00a0When I update an app on my phone, I’m prompted with information about what the app has access to and the ability to say, “hmmmm…. I don’t think I want that”….<\/p>\n

I might be able to accept that fact that I don’t have the ability to turn down an update to the phone that will close a security issue, or fix a critical bug – but changing my market app without so much as an text message isn’t giving me warm fuzzies. \u00c2\u00a0I get how they did it – the market is similar to a website – the content changes each time I open it \u00c2\u00a0– and I understand why they did it – they want to market their apps… \u00c2\u00a0I want my downloads tab back on the home page of the market.<\/p>\n

You can still get to the downloads tab – you just have to hit menu from the market home screen and you will see downloads. \u00c2\u00a0Read more about this change here: \u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/sprint-get-own-tab-android-market<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do not like having my apps on my phone change over night without me clicking so much as an OK button. \u00c2\u00a0This morning, I open my phone to search the market – and there it is – “Sprint” – right where my downloads tab was. \u00c2\u00a0I’m not ok with this. \u00c2\u00a0When I update an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}