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AmEv
03-26-2012, 07:11 PM
https://play.google.com/store?hl=en&tab=w8
Stonerboy779
03-26-2012, 07:30 PM
You're late to the party :P

Google play is just the android market renamed.
AmEv
03-26-2012, 07:33 PM
Still have 0 android devices. So....
TLHarrell
03-26-2012, 09:13 PM
I don't care for the name change. Yeah, it's got music and movies in there, but there's a lot of other non-play type software as well. And the name rolls off the tongue like a lead brick dipped in toffee.
AmEv
03-26-2012, 11:28 PM
Now I'm stuck trying to imagine what a lead brick dipped in toffee would be like....

Without making it sound dirty <_<
BuzzKillington
03-26-2012, 11:45 PM
It's nice... but was the name/icon change seriously necessary? It's annoying to me.
CrazyTeaPot
03-27-2012, 02:19 AM
Because we're Google! We want our name in everything, even if it sounds bad! We're the George Foreman of the tech world!

I'm honestly tired of Googles giant ego. It's not undeserved, but it's poorly used. Google Play? That sounds terrible. And it doesn't even make that much sense.

They are also like George Lucas, except they have no guy who goes "Yay" or "Nay". (ie, Lots of ideas. Not all good. Not all bad. When given supreme control... makes lots of bad ideas into reality.)
luciusad2004
03-27-2012, 03:00 AM
It just popped up in my browser today. I was intrigued by the idea of cross platform connectivity for anything i purchased in the Google market. It seems to offer something that Apple can't. (Books, Movies, Music on any device you can log in to your Google account from.)

That said I haven't purchased any sort of media from Google. Ever.
d_stilgar
03-27-2012, 10:42 AM
It just popped up in my browser today. I was intrigued by the idea of cross platform connectivity for anything i purchased in the Google market. It seems to offer something that Apple can't. (Books, Movies, Music on any device you can log in to your Google account from.)

That said I haven't purchased any sort of media from Google. Ever.

I would be interested in this as well and it would certainly sway me from having the latest ipad at the top of my list of tablets I would like to own.

The sad thing is that all the games (one of the biggest things I would like to have) aren't available unless I own an android device. How lame. They add this new thing, called Google Play at the top of my pages, and then I can't play at all. I could read, listen, or watch perhaps, but certainly not play.

. . . maybe they're hoping that pressing "play" on a movie counts.

It doesn't, Google. Give me some games!
AmEv
03-27-2012, 11:59 AM
Lemme play Android games on my computer! Set that up, you'll get THOUSANDS more customers!
TLHarrell
03-27-2012, 12:56 PM
Lemme play Android games on my computer! Set that up, you'll get THOUSANDS more customers!

I think this is coming fairly soon. I heard somewhere about the Chrome browser will be adding native Android support. And Android itself, coming to your desktop in a sandbox mode. Might be interesting to see.

I love the cross platform setup they have. I can browse for apps on my computer, and have them auto-install to my phone. Pretty sweet.

All the integration is pretty cool, and makes my life easier. They deserve a win there. But on the flipside, if something goes wrong, it can go horribly so.
AmEv
03-27-2012, 01:20 PM
I know about Android-x86 and Virtual machines, but there's no Google-supported market for it.
luciusad2004
03-27-2012, 02:33 PM
I don't think android apps on the PC would be that great. Unless you have a touch screen, do you really want to play multi-touch dependent games on your PC? I suppose you could filter then to find ones that don't require much touching but it still seems like it would be a poor user experience.

For instance, When I was running the windows 8 Consumer Preview. I browsed through the App Store and it all seemed to be touch apps. None of that was very well suited to the track pad on my laptop so i just didn't bother with it anymore.
d_stilgar
03-27-2012, 07:23 PM
I have angry birds for PC that I got for free and it plays just fine. Touch is really a bad version of the mouse pointer in a lot of ways. I can click in the same way, but I have to physically move a lot more and I'm blocking the screen the whole time, and there's little precision when you have a small screen and big fingers, and you smudge the screen when you touch it.

Mouse, pretty much the same thing but better.