Goodbye 'Android Market', Hello 'Google Play'

By JTaylor69
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Som

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I thought I read somewhere that if you have a rooted device it wont work?

nope, i've got a rooted desire s and it just upgraded and works fine, honestly though i see no difference other than the name, mind boggles why they didn't just call it google market though..

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I thought I read somewhere that if you have a rooted device it wont work?

Nope, Play Store/Play Music work just fine on my rooted Galaxy Nexus. However, I can't rent movies via Play Movies (says I have rooted device). I can watch local content though. Not a huge deal as I won't be renting movies from Google anyway.
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Mine's running Cyanogen Mod 7, and the Play Store icon showed up automatically on my phone yesterday. I'm sorry... "Play Store"??? That just looks and sounds dumb. I had the "Market" icon on my home screen, but I'll be removing this new ugly thing.

Agreed with Som above ^... barely any change in functionality. What's the point?

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tsupersonic

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Mine's running Cyanogen Mod 7, and the Play Store icon showed up automatically on my phone yesterday. I'm sorry... "Play Store"??? That just looks and sounds dumb. I had the "Market" icon on my home screen, but I'll be removing this new ugly thing.

Agreed with Som above ^... barely any change in functionality. What's the point?

You don't use the Market/Play Store to download apps? I'm curious, do you use a 3rd party store (like Amazon, etc), or do you just not use apps?

I'm ok with keeping it consistent, so I don't mind Play Store, Play Music, Play Movies. However, they could've chose a better name than "Play."

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BeerFan

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You don't use the Market/Play Store to download apps? I'm curious, do you use a 3rd party store (like Amazon, etc), or do you just not use apps?

I'm ok with keeping it consistent, so I don't mind Play Store, Play Music, Play Movies. However, they could've chose a better name than "Play."

Nope.. I do use apps and i used Market previously. I just meant that I'm not a big fan of the new name and icon, so i won't be keeping the icon on my home screen. I'll just access it through my apps list.

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