Journal DrVomact's Journal: Android Store Eaten by Google 1
I was surprised yesterday to note that the Android Apps store icon had gone away from my Android phone (T-Mobile Galaxy IIS), and had apparently been replaced with something called "Google Play". My first guess was that the faeries have been stealing apps and replacing them with their own offspring; turns out I was essentially right. (Here's a random link that talks about this. Here's a link that warns us about fake
WTF??? When I bought into the Android OS, my understanding was that I would be buying my apps from the Android Apps Store; now it's suddenly gone away and some entity obviously associated with the company formerly alleged to do no evil has taken its place. I have given the apps store my credit card info, and have extended considerable trust to them. How arrogant to simply yank it away from me and substitute this...this...changeling. Who knows what the ToS for this new "store" are (I thought it was some kind of game service at first; what a stupid name!), or what their app policies are. I guess it's a good thing it doesn't work—when I click on it, I just get an endless wait. Time to look for alternative ways to buy apps, I guess. What a bunch of idiots.
Google Play - for games and videos and songs? (Score:2)
This.
When I saw it I seriously thought that google had force installed a new application for google games, videos song, etc. But no, turns out that they have rebranded the google market application without warning.
Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] has a good writeup on it.
Yes, google play is a confusing name and a stupid choice. At least when you searched for 'android market' there was very few things on the net it could mean. But.. "Google play".. two common words.. great.
I thought that executives in this day and age put a lot of