The Android Market will now be called the Google Play Store as Google attempts to “make it clearer to consumers that Google offers a broad catalog of content in addition to the apps programmed for smartphones and tablets based on its Android operating system,” Reuters reports.
Google Play, which launched on Tuesday, is described by The New York Times as “a one-stop-shop for all of Google’s software services and applications.”
Google has been expanding its Android offerings to include digital books, music and videos to better compete with Apple and Amazon. These offerings were available through many different sites and the apps all had different names, adding to the overall confusion in dealing with the Android Market.
With the rebranding, Google will rename their media applications to feature “Play.”
Updates will start rolling out to Android devices in the coming weeks, but “the Web hub, which all Google users can access, will be open to the public and available for browsing immediately,” reports The New York Times.
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