{"id":63741,"date":"2025-04-30T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63741\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:40:08","slug":"googles-play-store-lost-nearly-half-its-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63741\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Play Store lost nearly half its apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Google Play Store shed 1.8 million apps since the beginning of last year, according to an analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/appfigures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Appfigures<\/a> and reported <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/29\/google-play-sees-47-decline-in-apps-since-start-of-last-year\/?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earlier by TechCrunch<\/a>. That makes up around 47 percent of the 3.4 million apps it started 2024 with \u2014 a decline that Google spokesperson Dan Jackson says reflects the company\u2019s focus on \u201cdelivering high-quality apps\u201d and \u201ccommitment to continuous improvements for user safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">As shown by data from Appfigures, nearly 200,000 of the titles removed from the Google Play Store were in the \u201cgames\u201d category, followed by 160,700 in education, and 115,400 in business. However, Appfigures shows that app releases are up 7.1 percent globally compared to the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cEvery year, we continue to invest in more ways to protect our community and fight bad actors, so users can trust the apps they download from Google Play and developers can build thriving businesses,\u201d Jackson said in a statement to The Verge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Though the Google Play Store may have lost a significant number of apps since last year, Appfigures\u2019 data shows Apple\u2019s App Store making a small jump from 1.6 million to 1.64 million apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Google Play Store shed 1.8 million apps since the beginning of last year, according to an analysis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[2061,2062,867,547,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-63741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-apps","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114428616579330626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}