On third-party smart TVs (this is a different category than today’s Android TV announcement) the app was killed in 2021.
How any normal person is supposed to understand that pile of Google media brands, and how it works across phones, the web, and various smart TV OSes, is beyond me.
The idea back in the 2010s was to compete with the digital media revolution Apple created with iTunes, the iPod, and the iPhone.
Most of the media stores started in the Android Market but then pivoted to a more Google-wide offering with the launch of Google Play branding in 2012.
Nothing at Google is ever stable, though, and the company’s other media stakeholders sought to pick apart what the Android Team had built.
All the apps will be dead in October, and presumably, that means the now-useless store will be booted from the web interface as well.
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On third-party smart TVs (this is a different category than today’s Android TV announcement) the app was killed in 2021.
How any normal person is supposed to understand that pile of Google media brands, and how it works across phones, the web, and various smart TV OSes, is beyond me.
The idea back in the 2010s was to compete with the digital media revolution Apple created with iTunes, the iPod, and the iPhone.
Most of the media stores started in the Android Market but then pivoted to a more Google-wide offering with the launch of Google Play branding in 2012.
Nothing at Google is ever stable, though, and the company’s other media stakeholders sought to pick apart what the Android Team had built.
All the apps will be dead in October, and presumably, that means the now-useless store will be booted from the web interface as well.
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