Google’s Play Store is changing — in fact, the entire Android app ecosystem is changing. A year from now, the world’s most popular mobile OS will be more like Apple’s iPhone than ever before. But ...

At the end of 2025, Google announced several changes aimed at improving how users find and install apps on Android. These changes included cracking down on unsigned apps from developers using ...

Since launching Google Play (née Android Market) in 2008, Google has never made a change to the US store that it didn’t want to make—until now. Having lost the antitrust case brought by Epic Games, ...

Google Play Pass was once a service that we never fathomed could exist for the games and apps on Android. After the popularity of Apple Arcade, however, Google saw fit to come up with its own similar ...

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