Google removes the brand name for the Android Market and brings the store into Play. The concept wants the internetgigant users clarify the different types of content in the offer for mobile devices.
Google Play seems to be mainly a new interior design of existing services. Google used formerly the Android Market to, in addition to mobile applications, music, videos and e-books to sell, but this task is now taken over by Google Play. According to the internetgigant such content from now on in this section provided. This includes the services Music and the eBookstore.
American users on Google Play enjoy audio, video, apps and e-books. This puts Google in the focus on keep it in sync all the purchased books, videos and music through cloud storage. Dutch users can currently, only applications buy from the e-shop. It is unclear when the services available are extensive.
Google has little success with the sales of multimedia content via the Android Market. With the rebranding and the new concept the company hopes that this will change. Users who have an Android device with at least version 2.2 of the mobile OS is running, get the Play app, which is the current Market-application must be replaced. There seems to be furthermore, none of the new functionality to the new Market to be added.
The name Play popped up earlier on when there were rumors emerged about Google’s upcoming tablet. The device, which may be the Nexus brand is wearing, would Google Play called go. The internetgigant the device, suspected of Nvidias Tegra 3 soc is built, not yet announced. The screen of the tablet would have a diagonal of 7″.
