Update: Ignore. Ignore. Ignore. Someone doesn’t know how CM themes work. That said, Google, please make this change.
Whoa. With the recent introduction of Google’s new logo and branding, are we about to see the retirement of the Google Play name? Or maybe just the Google Store taking over as a general term for Google’s offered products? According to the images above that showed up through a server-side switch on a reader of ours’ Play store, we are seeing “Google Store” replace “Google Play” in both the top search bar in Google Play and in permissions pages.
So what does that mean? Without confirmation from this happening everywhere, it’s tough to say. It could mean that Google is ditching their odd “Play” add-on and just going with Google this or that. In other words, everything could (and should for everyone’s sake) become Google Music, Google Books, Google Newsstand, Google Movies & TV, etc. The whole Play thing has always been awkward and unnecessary.
But does that mean you will be buying apps and games and music and TV/movies through the Google Store? Maybe. (Hopefully.) That’s another thing that never made sense – two separate stores. Why did Google feel the need to introduce a Google Store for devices and still keep the Google Play store for everything else? It’s always been a super confusing move because a single place to get everything is almost always better than splitting it up for the sake of splitting it up.
Anyone else seeing this branding in their Google Play Store? And FYI, this reader of ours is still on Google Play version 5.9.12.
I hope this is true. The whole Play thing was a sucky idea. It makes no sense. I think they should rebrand using “g” before all of their products. gMusic, gPhotos, gDrive, etc. It makes more sense that way, in my opinion.
Continuity is not a thing at Google HQ
The theme that is being used is MaterialUp by Victor Burgoa
https://goo.gl/WYwqAy
It is the best ever!
( Not Melior IU )
Whoops! How embarrassing.
I would love it so much if they dropped the silly “Play” after everything.
i am on the same version both are still “play”
Melior UI theme
Droid-life dun been fooled
While we’re at it, can we finally merge the Chrome store into the Play/Google Store? There really isn’t any reason why that needs to be a separate store.
I’m just hoping Google Play Music All Access shortens too.. I feel ridiculous saying/typing it.
Ah hell, why don’t we just go back to the Market name?
I liked Android Market.
Simpler days
This is so much better, but its absolutely awful at this point where Google Play is branded on a ton of other places not owned by Google
Cool…
I’ve always hoped they remove “Play” from everything and add device purchasing in the app…
Nope.
This is a CM 12/12.1 theme by Victor Burgoa. It edits the “Google Play” wording in the Play Store to be “Google Store”
I know this because I was rocking this theme on my OPO. The altered nav bar buttons and the slightly recolored tiles for Apps, Games, Newsstand, etc. were the dead give aways for me. Give the listing a view.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.materialuptheme.victorburgoa&hl=en
True, but it’s possible they are just using this screenshot from that theme as an example for some leaked info.
That would be highly irresponsible and something DL would never do.
According to the screenshots in that theme, it still shows Google play in the Google Play Store.
Hasn’t been updated. this guy is right its from material up. Droid-life is being trolled
It was me. I wasn’t trolling, I promise. I really thought it changed. I updated the theme last night. And when I saw it today, with all the Google and Nexus hype I’d been reading all day I got too excited and thought it was Google who changed it since it wasn’t there yesterday. I never even realized themes could change this resource since I’d never seen one do it before.
I checked and noticed that. I wish I had screenshots from my own device to prove it. I moved to a OP2 though. I’m sure their source would confirm this if they reached back out to them.
I installed the theme and….
There it is! haha thanks for the corroboration
Hopefully this creates enough buzz to make Google consider it. They have used ideas from the modding community before.
That looks like a CM theme engine theme; I’m using Melior UI right now and it looks exactly the same.
Bingo!
This is very confusing. There’s already a Google Store site on the web.
yeah Google app store would work better.
That’s just as bad as Google play store. You can reach all the Google stores from google play store already.
Well yeah, the idea here, if true, is that Google Play would disappear forever and just become the Google Store.
I think we can all agree that WE ALL said this when they came out with the silly “Play” name. Thank you for using a normal naming scheme for once Google.
Makes more sense.