The Google Play application market lose applications.
According to the new Intelligence Provident application analysis, from 2024 from 2024, the Android application market has moved from hosting about 3.4 million applications around the world to about 1.8 million Appfigures. This is a decrease by about 47%, which is a significant purification of applications that were available to Android users around the world.
The company is not part of a larger global trend, the company also notes. At the same time, the Apple App Store has passed from hosting 1.6 million applications until now about 1.64 million applications, for example – a slight increase.
In the case of Google, a decrease in application may be a relief for Android device owners who had to sort applications of fraudsters, spamming and poor quality to find the best to install. Reduction can also help programmers who had to fight for visibility.
Over the years, less stringent Google Play requirements regarding application review have led to the market of the market using lower quality applications. While Apple continues to enforce the exact means of reviewing the application before publication, Google is often based on automatic controls in combination with malware scanning to speed up the application review process. He tends to a shorter application review period as a result of a lighter touch in terms of human review.
In July 2024, Google announced that it would be so Raise the minimum quality requirements In the case of applications that could affect the number of Play Store applications available.
Instead of bothering only broken applications that crashed, they would not install or work properly, the company said that it would start prohibiting applications that showed “limited functionality and content”. This Static applications have joined Without function specific for applications, such as text applications or PDF file applications. It also contained applications that provided small content, such as those that offered only one wallpaper. In addition, Google banned applications that have been designed so that they do nothing or have functions that could be tests or other lowered programmers' efforts.
He arrived for a comment, Google confirmed that his new rules were factors here, which also included an extended set Verification requirementsIN Application testing required for new personal programmers and Extended people's reviews To check applications that try to cheat or deceive users.
In addition, the company pointed to other 2024 investments in artificial intelligence to detect threats, stronger privacy policies, improved programmers tools and others. As a result, Google preventive 2.36 million applications expressing policy from publishing in their Play store and banned over 158,000 developers accounts that tried to publish harmful applications.
One of the factors that Google did not quote was the new trader status rule enforced by the EU from February, which began to require programmers to share their names and addresses on the application list. Those who did not do this would see their applications removed from EU applications stores. (It is worth pointing out that Apple He also began to require the status of a salesman Information in February and as a result did not record the inheritance of available applications.)
Appfigures also notes that the number of applications in the Google Play store began to fall, before the official start of cleaning last summer; There is no explanation for this change yet. However, the company claims that 10.4,000 has been held in Google Play, which is an increase of 7.1% year on year.
