Google Play Films & TV—and the Google Play model on the whole—appears doomed. Google already pulled the Play Films & TV app from Rokus and different sensible TV platforms final 12 months, and it’ll now take away the Films & TV part from the Play Retailer. The Play Retailer, which used to supply a big assortment of content material, now solely sells apps and books.
Google posted a message to the Google Play Assist neighborhood saying that the Films & TV Play Retailer part will shut down in Might 2022 and that the Google TV app would be the new residence for purchasing film and TV content material from Google on telephones and tablets. The corporate additionally sells video content material via YouTube, and when it shut down the Google Play Films & TV app on sensible TVs, Google pitched the YouTube app as its alternative for bought content material.
So whenever you purchase video content material from Google, you employ the Google TV or Google Play Films & TV app to play content material on Android, the Google Play Films & TV app on iOS, and the YouTube app on third-party sensible TVs like Roku. “Google TV” is not simply the identify of the telephone app and video content material retailer; it is also the brand new identify of Android TV OS, which you may get on the brand new Chromecast (it is also built-in into some Sony and TCL tv units). On these gadgets, your purchases are constructed into the working system. Google Play Films & TV shall be utterly useless if Google chooses to close down the telephone apps, and that appears inevitable at this level.
The transfer is the newest step in Google’s sunsetting of Google Play. The corporate hasn’t formally introduced that it desires to kill the model but, however a suspicious quantity of Google Play providers are being turned off. Google Play launched in 2012 as a house for all of Google’s content material. Android apps and video games, music, books, films, TV reveals, and magazines may all be purchased in a unified Play Retailer interface, and a set of content material playback apps allowed customers to entry every library kind. It appears that evidently Google gave up on this concept in some unspecified time in the future. Google Play Newsstand was shut down and merged into Google Information in 2018, and Play Music was shut down in 2020 in favor of YouTube Music. Google Play Films & TV appears subsequent on the listing. With the elimination of purchases from the Play Retailer and the app from sensible TVs, solely the telephone app is left.
On the Play Retailer, that leaves apps, video games, and books. Google Play Books doesn’t have another residence but, however do not be shocked to listen to about one quickly.
