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Google Play wants to make it easier to discover new apps and great content

www.androidfaithful.com Google Play wants to make it easier to discover new apps and great content

Google has unveiled a bunch of new features aimed at turning the Play Store into more than just a destination for people to download new apps. Here's what they announced.

Main Highlights of the article:

The new "Collections" widget shows content from your favorite apps right on your home screen
The Play Store is adding a dedicated tab for Comics
Google Play Points members can enter to win free hardware each week
Google will let you control which apps contribute to your personalized Play Store experience
Play up to 4 games at the same time with this Google Play Games on PC update
New games are available through Google Play Pass, which is 80% off for a limited time
Personalize your game searches with multi-select interest filters
Use AI to compare apps

19 comments

https://f-droid.org/
- I love f-droid for what it is, but discovery is not one of it’s strong suits.
  
  It is way better than Google play. You can scroll by category or search for a specific app. The apps you find are actually ethical and not some malware/spyware.
Remove all the ad spots then!
- Haha, that will be $5-10 per month. What do you say?
  
  Honestly, they should offer an ad-free Play Store experience with Google One.
Ladies and gents, this is what you get when an industry stops innovating. Moving search bars up and down, adding endless "summary" pages, obfuscating pages behind others etc
No it doesn't; they just moved the search bar to its own dedicated page, requiring a click.
- Headline should read Google forces people to interact infinitely more with their overcomplicated shitstore.
sure they do.

Me: searches for specific app with nothing to do with social media

Google play: try Facebook, you'll love it!
How about giving us a way to filter away everything that involves in-app purchases and advertisements?
- F-droid is what you want
  
  I've used them in the past for specific things, but I'm not sure I entirely trust them as a general app store yet.
Look, I'm satiated, I don't need to discover new apps nor great content through Google Play. Most apps are trash and I've never bought content through Google Play.
Personally, I feel. The comics tab, ability to win Pixel hardware(in supported regions), personalized game searches sound good. Others are okay.
By "new apps and great content," do you mean new apps and great content for me to enjoy and have genuinely good experiences with, or just new apps and great content for me to buy through you?
I’m really not looking to add a bunch more apps. I kind of want to get rid of the ones I have.

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