The Google Play Platform significantly reduced the number of applications since the beginning of 2024. data Referring to the statistics of the TechCrunch portal analytical company applications, the number of applications in the Google Store decreased from 3.4 million to 1.8 million. This means that the Google Play catalog is almost doubled -47%.
Such a sharp decrease does not reflect a global tendency in the mobile applications market. For the comparison, the Apple App Store for the same period showed a low growth and increased its catalog from 1.6 million to 1.64 million positions. However, these changes are considered positive for Google ecosystem. Users are now faced with less fraudulent schemes, spam and only weak quality content, which occupies high positions in the search before. Conscientious developers receive better visibility of their fair competition conditions and products.
For many years, Google Play has differentiated from the App Store with a less strict approach to control applications before releasing, and has chosen automatic procedures and scanned for the presence of a malicious code for speed. This caused the store to overflow with low quality products. Apple, on the contrary, has always supported manual moderation more carefully.
The situation changed in July 2024 when Google announced a significant increase in minimum requirements for the quality of applications. Now, not only incorrectly operating faulty applications are not allowed, not, or often “flying”, but also projects with limited functionality or minimum content are not allowed.
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Source: Gazeta
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