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thelostone
07-03-2012, 09:11 PM
The Android Market is dead -- long live Google Play. In a surprise move, the big G has renamed its app store to encompass books, movies and music, on computers as well as smart phones and tablets.Google Play has a streamlined new look to make it easier to wade through the vast range of apps in the Android Market. It's available from today on phones rocking Android 2.2 and above.
The Music, Videos and Books apps will change to Play Music, Play Movies and Play Books. Head to the current Market to update your apps, and look out for the new 'play button' icon instead of the famous Android.

Buy an ebook, film or song on one device, and you can read, watch or listen to it on any other device. That's similar to iTunes Cloud, which lets you download apps and media to your different Apple devices.
As well as the Android smart phones and tablets we're used to using to shop in the Android Market, Google Play works on computers, laptops and Chromebooks. That echoes the blurring of desktop and mobile in iTunes -- which was a desktop store before it went mobile on the iPhone and iPad -- and Microsoft's Windows 8, which has an app store for apps that can work on Windows 8 computers and tablets, and Windows Phone smart phones.