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Google Play just sounds weird

Android Wax

Android Wax

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I'm just not feeling Google's new name for their market. I Personally think the name change was a bad move. When I hear Google Play I think of just about games. Not applications, books, movies, ect. Google Market is a place for all this to come together not Google Play.

What do you guys think? Obviously what we say is not going to mean much, but I want to hear some opinions on this.

I've never had a iPhone nor do I ever want one. The android devices have my heart. But I am wondering, on the iPhone do you go to iTunes do downloads apps for the device?
 
On the iPhone, you go to the "App Store" for apps and (I think) ebooks. For music and videos, you use iTunes.

I don't like the name Google Play either. Market fit better for reasons you already stated.
 
While I think that "Play" is a bit more confounding that "Market", it's pretty easy to see why Google wanted to drop the "Android" moniker considering they want people on non-Android platforms to score music, vids, and books from them.

I mean "Android Market" doesn't seem like the place to go and buy some books for your non-Android phone does it?
 
I could see why they might have wanted to get rid of the "Android", but I still would've preferred Market over Play. Google Market sounds much more appealing to me.

I'm so used to the Market name in my app drawer that it actually took me a few seconds to adjust to the name change and find it again in my apps :o
 
They should have made it Google Store. The problem was Apple took App Store, and Windows called theirs simply "Marketplace". Maybe Google could have called theirs "Mall" or something.
 
"Play" also means media e.g. music, movies, books. My take is that Google rebranded the Market to put more emphasis on that side of the business, especially as it's now possible to directly access i.e. play your content from the app.
 
Android Wax said:
I'm just not feeling Google's new name for their market. I Personally think the name change was a bad move. When I hear Google Play I think of just about games. Not applications, books, movies, ect. Google Market is a place for all this to come together not Google Play.


I've never had a iPhone nor do I ever want one. The android devices have my heart. But I am wondering, on the iPhone do you go to iTunes do downloads apps for the device?
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You have to use itunes to deal with any kind of file, including serious files so I guess Google is going in that direction. Still, I'm concerned that this new name may deter developers from creating serious apps for Android because of the perception that this brings.
 
Android Wax said:
I've never had a iPhone nor do I ever want one. The android devices have my heart. But I am wondering, on the iPhone do you go to iTunes do downloads apps for the device?
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No, the App Store allows you to download/update apps without being connected to iTunes. Anything other than an app and you need to connect to iTunes, though.
 
Slug said:
"Play" also means media e.g. music, movies, books. My take is that Google rebranded the Market to put more emphasis on that side of the business, especially as it's now possible to directly access i.e. play your content from the app.
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Which is another step in the wrong direction IMO. I don't use the Market for anything other than apps. I hated the new Market and everything it stood for. I hate being advertised to for products I will never buy. Now I have to be reminded in the name as they gravitate towards even more obtrusive advertising? Wonderful. At this point I'd pay a buck to just have the functionality of the old Market back in name and action so I'm not being marketed to when I'm just trying to update an app.
 
I get that "PLAY" could mean you can play games, movies, music, and now even books. But you don't play Applications. Who are they targeting with the word PLAY? If they are trying to target the 25 and up crowd, the people who can actually afford and "BUY" stuff then they have failed. Play is a word for the younger demographic. If I was targeting people 18 and under I would use that word.

Ironically enough my sales from yesterday dropped 30%. Just the way Google surprised everyone with this just seems like a bad move. Very confusing. The least they could have done is rolled out an email to consumers and developers letting them know about the change.
 
Well, there's no point in banging this issue forever. We have to realize that Apple's biggest strength right now is its music and game selection from itunes and the ipod and maybe Google has to swing the pendulum a little harder in that direction.
 
The moniker “Play” must tick off the devolpers of business apps, having sell their tools in a sandbox.
 
And “The Market” was such an appropriate name... who talked them into this? A roomful of lawyers?
 
Now I have to try to remember what this damn thing is named whenever I want to update or find an app. I knew right where Market was in my app list. Now I have to scroll around looking for that awful 80's icon. Thanks Google!
 
Absolutely terrible decision from a marketing/business/logic/common sense stand point. I would love to have been in that meeting where they decided on this to hear the reasoning behind it. It boggles my mind that a company such as Google (who's not perfect, but definitely better in the marketing aspect than most others) can do something like this.

It honestly sounds like they're trying to go after the "eleven-teen" year old Apple crowd with this.
 
Sadly Google sucks more & more. I'm avoiding them as much as possible now, learning how & will root my phone to get rid of their new crap & policies. I also no longer use their search engine & have stopped recommending them. Customers have power if they stop using all things Gaggle.
 
Just got an update for Google Maps today. Surprised they didn't change name to Play Maps or Play Directions or something awesome like that. I guess they'll be discontinuing this app since they couldn't fit it in their new marketing scheme.
 
Yes I agree that Android is far better than Apple. Not sure that Google itself is. They seem to be copying Apple more & more as they they constantly change the things that we once liked about Google. To me, they are now both Evil.
 
The name changed from a noun to a verb. Just another improperly named product from corporate America trying to capture the attention of our illiterate youth.
 
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