Google Play’s App Marketplace Applications are losing.
From the beginning of 2024, the Android App Marketplace has become about 1.8 million from about 3.4 million app hosting worldwide, according to a new analysis of the app intelligence provider AppFiguresThe This is a decrease of about 47%, which represents a significant purification of applications available for Android users worldwide.
This fall is not part of any greater global tendency, but also notes the firm. In the same period, Apple’s iOS App Store went to about 1.64 million applications from 1.6 million app hosting, for example – a little growth.
In the case of Google, the reduction of applications can be relieved for Android device owners who had to look for the best to install scams, spammy and otherwise bad quality quality applications. The decrease can also help developers who had to fight for visibility.
Over the years, the less strict requirements of Google Play for application review have surpassed the market with low quality applications. Although Apple has been implementing strict application reviews before publishing, Google often depends on automatic checks combined with malware scans to speed up the application review process. This is the result of a short app review period as a result of human review.
In July 2024, Google announced it Increase the minimum quality requirements For applications, which can affect the list of the available Play Store app list.
Instead of banning only broken applications, crashes will not be installed or run properly, the agency says it will begin to ban “limited functionality and content” applications. That Includes static app Applications such as text-keble applications or PDF file apps without the app-specific features. It also includes applications that only provide a little content like that provides a single wallpaper. In addition, Google is designed to do something or applies that do not have any functionality, which may be the attempt to test or other abandoned developers.
Reaching for comments, Google confirmed that its new principles were the reason here, it also included an extended set Verification requirements, Testing the required app For new personal developer accounts, and Stretched human review To test the applications that users try to deceive or deceive.
Also, the agency has pointed to other 2024 investment in AI for threat identification, strong privacy policies, advanced developed equipment and more. As a result, Google Has been prevented 2.3636 million policy-elaborate applications have banned more than 158,000 developer accounts to be published in its Play Store and publishing harmful applications.
One of the reasons that Google has not mentioned is the new business status rules applied by the EU until February, which began the need to share their names and addresses in the list of developers. Those who failed to do so will see their applications move from the EU App Store. (It is precious to indicate the apple Also start the needer status requirement Data in February, and did not see the resulting applicable in the resulting applications))))))
Appfigers additionally note that it began to see the number of apps in the Google Play Store apps before the formal start of the pure last summer; It is still no explanation for this change. However, the firm says that this year has been released 10.4K on Google Play so far, as April is more than 7.1% over the years.