Introducing Google Play. (Wut?)

[SunnyD]

WTF is this new contraption that Google has?

 

[Joseph F]

It seems to be exactly the same as the Android market.

 

[rivan]

Seems line a consolidation of the android market and google music (where do they sell movies other than android market?

Edit: I'll be interested if I can get my Kindle Fire listed on the devices I can push content to.

 

[Joseph F]

I opened up the market on my Samsung Fascinate, and Google play is outright replacing it.

 

[Anubis]

its not new they just changed the name of the android market and google music/books and combined them

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/03/06/goodbye-android-market-hello-google-play/

 

[Ichinisan]

Looks like you might also be able to use Android apps on a PC, too.

I'll have to look at this more closely.

 

[rudeguy]

Play is just the market renamed.

They are running some really nice sales on apps and albums. I think I saw a couple movie rentals dirt cheap too.

Hopefully they do something more than just rename the thing.

 

[destrekor]

Google Play, on the PC, is the Google Music cloud concept applied to the entirety of the Android Market (in this case, Music, Movies, and Books). It then rolls up the Android Market store, which... as far as apps are concerned, is simply a one-stop shop at that point. But in a desktop browser, it's more than the Market itself - it's a cloud-style home for everything not that doesn't entirely require the Android OS to utilize (and as mentioned above, then simply acts solely as a store for the apps/games that do require Android).

On Android itself, it's simply a rebadged Android Market. So far, it seems the separate Android apps (Music, Books, etc) still remain standalone, but have received the new Play label as well.

I think this is the what the unified privacy policy is truly meant to bring about - unified Google services across as many platforms as possible (on the mobile front, likely only entirely integrated with Android, though some services available on WP and iOS). Eventually, Google+ will probably get more deeply integrated with these services (or the other way around?), and hopefully the recent surge in Google Drive speculation proves to be true - as that will probably be deeply integrated into everything-Google. Which, if it offers anything remotely approaching the storage capacity of Google Music (20,000 songs from personal upload, unlimited? Google Play purchases remain on the cloud/available for download/"pinning"), I will be a major fan, especially since SkyDrive, which could be so awesome, is completely relegated to browser-only on Android... at least OneNote and it's syncing capability is awesome on Android.

 

[SKORPI0]

Signed in to my Google account and it shows all the android apps that I've installed.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Signed in to my Google account and it shows all the android apps that I've installed.

That's been there since more or less day one.

 

[destrekor]

Signed in to my Google account and it shows all the android apps that I've installed.

That's been there since more or less day one.

Yep. It's just consolidated and easy to access now.

Installing apps to specific devices from the browser is also awesome, and something that was on the android market page for a little while now.

Google has been making some awesome strides in the consolidation area lately, and have made it very easy to integrate most of my activities through Google. Of course, like most online services these days, you really have to pay attention to privacy settings. Especially considering Google's main bread and butter is Advertising. They are an Ad company, which is why so much awesome shit is free for the [home] end-user. The consolidated privacy settings actually make it very easy to snuff out long-term data gathering - but of course, it's also easy to ignore that (and not understand), and that could be bad in the long run for some people ignorant of such matters.

 

[bgcpen]

so it'll get as cumbersome as the iTunes store?

 

[lothar]

Signed in to my Google account and it shows all the android apps that I've installed.

Oh Noes!!!
You need to stop using Google products because they're tracking and monitoring you!!!