One of your favorite Android applications may have disappeared forever. And, in an unexpected turn of the facts, it was revealed that Play Store has eliminated about half of its applications In the last year.
Exactly, the shop that was once presumed to be twice applied by the App Store, now It was with almost the same amount of Apple’s Store apps. But… What happened at the Play Store? Well, then let’s explain the reason for these huge apps from the Google Store.
Apocalypse in the Play Store: 47 % of their apps (1.8 million) were eliminated … for a good reason
In an analysis carried out by the company APPFIGures (published by The Techcrunch Medium) It has been revealed that Google has eliminated 1.8 million questions from the Play Store. This is equivalent to a 47 % reduction in the app catalog if we take into account the fact that the shop had about 3.4 million apps at the beginning of 2024.
Total applications canceled, near 200 thousand were gamesJust over 160 thousand came from the category of education and about 115 thousand were business and finances. The rest were tools, entertainment, food, shopping, books, productivity and life apps.
But negligent, this is not the end for the Play Store or means that you will lose your favorite apps. Dan Jackson, Google spokesman, explained that this measure is part of the Approach the new store to offer only high quality applications and reduce the irrigation of users’ safety.
In fact, those who have been eliminated are mainly Harmful apps, with safety faults or functionality and limited content. All this with the aim of making the Play Store a shop safer and more reliable for both users and developers.
Finally, we must mention that despite having reduced its catalog almost halfway, Play Store continues to have a little more applications than the App Store. Currently, the Google Store is around 1.8 million apps, while Apple has 1.64 million.
And you… What do you think of this measure that Google has adopted with your app store?
