Google has made a large cleaning in Son Google Play Store. Since the beginning of last year, 1.8 million apps have disappeared from the online store, which represents almost half of the offer.
Google claims to want to focus mainly on ‘quality app’. The research giant has long been opposed to less quality applications in its store, but since 2023, it has given itself the mission of examining the apps in depth. The company now requires developers that they test their concepts with minimum 20 users for at least two weeks and last year, it began to delete apps from ‘features and limited content’. Last January, the company announced that it has blocked the download of 2.36 million apps, because they did not respect the rules.
According to appfigures data, nearly 200,000 titles withdrawn from the Play Store belonged to the ‘Games’ category, 160,700 to the ‘Education’ and 115,400 category in the ‘business’ category. Despite this large cleaning, the number of new apps still increased by 7.1 percent last year, according to Appfigures. The number of apps remaining in the store has slightly believed, from 1.6 to 1.64 million.
