Is Aviate launcher kicked out of play store?

Zyxxyz · Jul 1, 2015

I couldn't find aviate launcher on Playstore. Did Google kick it out?

Unforgiven · Jul 1, 2015

Looks that way. I found this TechCrunch article published only three hours ago and the play link is broken. :thinking:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/01/sm...erhauled-accused-of-being-a-google-now-clone/

Unforgiven · Jul 1, 2015

Yahoo's official site link doesn't work either.

http://aviate.yahoo.com/

Zyxxyz · Jul 1, 2015

Unforgiven said:
Yahoo's official site link doesn't work either.

http://aviate.yahoo.com/

Sad. I wanted to try it out. I beta tested it then went Google way.

Unforgiven · Jul 1, 2015

I wonder what happened. No news about it anywhere yet. o_O

Zyxxyz · Jul 1, 2015

Unforgiven said:
I wonder what happened. No news about it anywhere yet.

APK mirror has the apk. But that just doesn't do... It's too sudden. There were too many fingers raised that aviate went google now launcher way. May have trekked too close to google lands. And got google's wrath. Maybe?!
Version 3 is eerily similar to Google now launcher

Hadron · Jul 1, 2015

I can see it in the play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tul.aviate.

That link came from the TechCrunch article, but the Yahoo site and its Play link are working for me as well.

Unforgiven · Jul 1, 2015

All the links are working now. Strange.

KOLIO · Jul 1, 2015

Hadron said:
I can see it in the play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tul.aviate.

That link came from the TechCrunch article, but the Yahoo site and its Play link are working for me as well.

Still there for me as well,strange but fun fact:

A search from the desktop PC within the GooglePlayStore for Aviate or Yahoo Aviate Launcher nets a result,but,not as the 1st one,it's on the 2nd row of app icons that appear.
However,a general GOOGLE Search nets a direct link as the 1st result............

Hadron · Jul 1, 2015

Despite Google's core expertise being search, the search within the Play Store has always been spectacularly bad. Second row is actually quite good compared to some I've seen.

Why this should be is one of life's mysteries...

Unforgiven · Jul 1, 2015

Hadron said:
Despite Google's core expertise being search, the search within the Play Store has always been spectacularly bad.

^^^understatement of the year, our forum search is better than Play search.

Hadron said:
Why this should be is one of life's mysteries...

Oh the irony that I can usually find apps in Play easier using Google search rather than Play search. :rolleyes:

EarlyMon · Jul 1, 2015

Meanwhile, *everyone* has downrated the app since yesterday's update.

funkylogik · Jul 2, 2015

Bad update then. Luckily I'm a Nova diehard (boring old ****[fart])

funkylogik · Jul 2, 2015

Surely though the rumours about it being too much of a Now Launcher clone are just click bait though??

Omar Days · Jul 2, 2015

funkylogik said:
Surely though the rumours about it being too much of a Now Launcher clone are just click bait though??

I'm a nova die hard too, but the mention of aviate being a Now Launcher clone made me just check it out. Needless to say, it's not.

funkylogik · Jul 2, 2015

Omar Days said:
I'm a nova die hard too, but the mention of aviate being a Now Launcher clone made me just check it out. Needless to say, it's not.

Saved me the hasstle then bro Cheers

AZgl1500 · Jul 2, 2015

saved me the waste of time to even look at it.

Nova works great, why bother looking else where?

Slug · Jul 2, 2015

AZgl1500 said:
sNova works great, why bother looking else where?

Because not everyone likes the same thing? Because other launchers may offer users something that Nova doesn't? Because... well, choice?

It's not a difficult concept to grasp, surely?

AZgl1500 · Jul 3, 2015

'tis so, but when I have all I need, why mess with looking around

KISS, if it ain't broke, I don't go fixing it until it is :eek:

Slug · Jul 3, 2015

AZgl1500 said:
'tis so, but when I have all I need, why mess with looking around

It's a matter of topicality. The question was about the availability of the app in the Store, not its popularity.

Cubensys · Jul 3, 2015

I read that as Aviato lol!

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