XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   Andy Burns wrote in message   
   VYCdnYXUWZeTDjHLnZ2dnUU78IudnZ2d@brightview.co.uk:   
      
   >> when I tried to log in from my   
   >> laptop into my Android Google Play account, it wouldn't let me.   
   >   
   > It should.   
      
   I showed a screenshot.   
   It wouldn't.   
   It didn't like that I've never logged in, I guess, and that I suddenly   
   logged in from the web, I guess (instead of from a phone).   
      
   There is no way around it.   
   Google won't let me in without me giving them MORE information   
   (which is a phone number).   
      
   That's kind'a funny.   
   The account was created on a phone.   
   But Google doesn't already know my phone number?   
      
   How can that be?   
      
   > You seem to think you have an account that is /just/ a Google Play   
   > account, it isn't; it's a full blown Google account with the ability to   
   > do gmail, location history tracking, google+, uploading videos and   
   > commenting on youtube, editing spreadsheets and documents, syncing   
   > calendars and to-do lists, etc, etc ... you just happen to not be using   
   > those parts of it.   
      
   That may be the case, and probably is.   
   But I don't even use it.   
   The account is *only* there to allow me to download apps from Google Play.   
   I delete it every few months anyway, so it wouldn't be worth using it   
   for anything else.   
      
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