This is the best summary I could come up with:
On third-party smart TVs (this is a different category than today’s Android TV announcement) the app was killed in 2021.
How any normal person is supposed to understand that pile of Google media brands, and how it works across phones, the web, and various smart TV OSes, is beyond me.
The idea back in the 2010s was to compete with the digital media revolution Apple created with iTunes, the iPod, and the iPhone.
Most of the media stores started in the Android Market but then pivoted to a more Google-wide offering with the launch of Google Play branding in 2012.
Nothing at Google is ever stable, though, and the company’s other media stakeholders sought to pick apart what the Android Team had built.
All the apps will be dead in October, and presumably, that means the now-useless store will be booted from the web interface as well.
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Good riddance. Less bullshit to uninstall when I get a new phone.
You’re right. From the article:
The company emailed users of Android TV to say that the "Google Play Movies & TV app will no longer be available on your Android TV device from 05 October 2023.
I wonder what the button on my TV remote will launch now? An error message? Or YouTube?
This community is about Android, not about phones. Android is on phones and televisions.
Yes, but they were pointing out that this change doesn’t affect phones, meaning the other commenter didn’t read the article.
Google is the only brand I know of where people go out of their way to own the hardware but do everything in their power to avoid the software.
Wait, no. Razor… Razor exists. NO ONE’S MOUSE NEEDS A DAILY DRIVER UPDATE!
Fuck Razor mice. They can’t do a mouse wheel right without it slipping backwards when scrolling. Garbage.
Their earbuds are good tho. So far.
Whats a good alternative to Razor? The wheel is slipping on my DeathAdder.
Logitech I guess. There is the mousereview subreddit if you want to research some alternatives. Don’t know if there is a Lemmy community equivalent.
That’s the model that the mouse wheel kept slipping.
Anything really I’m using some brand that has a ship as a logo that I got for like $5 clearance from Walmart that’s been pretty good. Not super fancy but has all 5 buttons and a button for quick change of sensitivity (which I’ve never got used to, I grew up on Ball nice, I have to remind myself that I got side buttons).
It’s not like that in all areas. It’s the exact opposite for their phones. Pixels are trash quality hardware with great software.
Google is just a massive disappointment in 2023…
Actually a good thing though, it should all be merged into one.
Google has truly mastered the fine arts of wasting money
