[novas0x2a]

Good. When I traveled out of the US, I noticed my phone battery life was terrible. Inspecting via catlog, I noticed that the amazon appstore (which I didn't actually have installed directly) was hitting an amazon url in an extremely tight loop, and getting a 403 Forbidden every time (you know, one of the errors that means "don't try again without fixing yourself").

My only explanation is that the amazon appstore has some sort of geographic restriction on the server-side, and the app wasn't written to handle that. I couldn't tell which app was actually responsible, so I just disabled or uninstalled every Amazon app, even though I find some of them useful (rapid package delivery notifications are pretty helpful in a city, when your package is probably sitting on the stoop unprotected). Doing so restored my battery life.

Hopefully this means Google is watching for Amazon's overreach now, and I'll be able to safely get my notifications again.

[merrua]

They leave your package outside your door? That's not ok.