Republished on March 16th with further reports into dangerous Android apps and the release of new Android protections for millions of users. What a week for Play Store. Google has been busy with its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Google Play Store has seen a wide purge of potentially millions of apps over the past 12 months as part of a wider clean-up operation. According to analysis from firm Appfigures and published by ...

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