{"id":88394,"date":"2016-04-27T17:17:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=88394"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:58:56","slug":"apps-are-being-removed-from-the-google-play-store-for-being-better-than-they-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apps-are-being-removed-from-the-google-play-store-for-being-better-than-they-should-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps are being removed from the Google Play Store for being better than they should be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<strong>Fenix<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 an unofficial application that improves <strong>Twitter\u2019s official app<\/strong>, has been removed from the Google Play Store, making it now impossible to download \u201cofficially\u201d. But there\u2019s more \u2013 even if you do get to download the app using other sources (which of course, we don\u2019t recommend), you won\u2019t be able to register as a new user.<strong> Fenix\u2019s<\/strong> develoeprs are now only able to update the app for its thousands of existing users. The question is: <em>Is it actually worth it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"unnamed\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/unnamed-568x355.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reason for its disappearance is obvious \u2013 <strong>Twitter realized that non-official applications had a considerably higher amount of users than Twitter itself<\/strong>. Twitter eventually got to the stage where it had to start limiting the number of users that were accessing twitter through third-party apps, which of course, is not a great sign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fenix-app\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/fenix-app-568x389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a limited number of users with no chance of future growth, applications such as<strong> Fenix<\/strong> will find it extremely difficult to justify their <strong>long-term plans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What will be the next application to suffer this cruel fate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFenix\u201d \u2013 an unofficial application that improves Twitter\u2019s official app, has been removed from the Google Play Store, making it now impossible to download \u201cofficially\u201d. But there\u2019s more \u2013 even if you do get to download the app using other sources (which of course, we don\u2019t recommend), you won\u2019t be able to register as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apps-are-being-removed-from-the-google-play-store-for-being-better-than-they-should-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apps are being removed from the Google Play Store for being better than they should be&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":88395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2422],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-88394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-play"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329031,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394\/revisions\/329031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88394"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=88394"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=88394"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=88394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}