On: Microsoft's big Windows 8 secret? It's actually about advertising.

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Google "Play: Store does this too just to download an Android app.

http://www.androidpipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Downlo...

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Isn't an app store literally just a wrapper around advertising though. Yes the ads there seem particularly low on instructive content but the rest of Android OS doesn't have advertising like that does it.