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Google Play Store rolling out simultaneous Android app downloads (9to5google.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Finally all that power won't be wasted waiting for a single app download to finish and install.

Now, they should do simultaneous app updates. That's the slowest process on my phone.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't get the hype over this. How often do you find your day interrupted by Play Store downloads that one finds this to be an important upgrade? My apps generally update while I'm asleep, I pretty much never need to wait for them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kinda handy during first time setup though. Can easily be 30 system apps updating, plus all the shit you might be grabbing from previous installs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Ahh yeah, that's a good point, I forgot about the recovery process. In that case, yeah I can absolutely see this saving a bunch of time when transferring devices.

[–] Sl00k 13 points 6 months ago

Swapping to new phones is really dreadful because of apps installs. It seems like the whole process is great EXCEPT app installs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is for app installs not updates.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They so need to add this for updates too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought they already added this for updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sadly not. I'm forever watching apps download updates in single file