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The Play Store could soon save you from downloading crappy apps (APK Teardown) (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by GreenEngineering3475 to c/google
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The Play Store hosts millions of apps, and it looks like Google is working on a way to warn users about potentially low-quality apps.

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[–] Arbiter 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

maybe just don’t list garbage apps on the store?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

They would have no apps if they did that.

[–] slazer2au 9 points 2 weeks ago

Low quality, unless they pay a particular fee to not be labels as so?

[–] Alexstarfire 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Somehow I doubt it's getting rid of fake/paid reviews.

[–] GreenEngineering3475 3 points 2 weeks ago

A different approach. I think it will be useful

Check out the Play Store messages below:

This app is frequently uninstalled compared to similar apps on Play

Play has limited user data about this app

This app has few active users compared to others on Play