Google Play Store has lost nearly half of its apps since early 2024, dropping from 3.4 million to around 1.8 million. The sharp decline follows stricter quality policies that removed low-functionality, spammy, or deceptive apps. Despite fewer overall ...

Do not keep these apps. Republished on August 30 with new deletion update for Play Store apps. Google has now confirmed the deletion of 77 malicious apps from Play Store. But this is just the tip of an alarming iceberg. In the last year, Google removed ...

A good way to survive without Google Play Store.

A federal judge yesterday ordered Google to open up the Google Play Store and its collection of apps to third-party app stores as part of a US-wide injunction stemming from Epic Games’ antitrust victory over the company. The injunction is scheduled to ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Google's new Play Store warning. Google continually deletes apps from Play Store. It has an ongoing program to purge the Android marketplace of ...

Not all good things are available via “official” channels, even some of the best applications on Android can’t be grabbed from the Google app storefront. Here are some of our favorite apps you won’t find on the Google Play Store. Because we’re ...