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by fpgeek 4205 days ago
Well, considering how long they were separate and the little or no user benefit that came from merger of their app store and Amazon's other shopping app (especially post-Amazon SSO), it seems pretty clear that the primary purpose of the merged app was to sneak an otherwise prohibited app store past Google's terms, so...
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That's quite a stretch. The purpose of a particular update to an app is not the primary purpose of the app itself.