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Half the Google Play Store apps just disappeared – here’s why

Tech Advisor

July 2025

Huge crackdown on scam Android apps.

- JON MUNDY reports

Half the Google Play Store apps just disappeared – here’s why

Google has been purging apps from its Android app store, with around half culled in the past year.

A new report from TechCrunch (tinyurl.com/362r85su, using figures from Appfigures) notes that, from the start of 2024 to today, the Google Play Store dropped from 3.4 million apps worldwide to around 1.8 million apps.

That's a loss of 47 percent of the apps available to Android users.

This isn't a general trend either, as Apple's iOS App Store library grew ever so slightly during the same time, from 1.6 million to 1.64 million apps.

Cette histoire est tirée de l'édition July 2025 de Tech Advisor.

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