Google Play is the digital distribution service through which Android users download apps, games, music, books and films. It began as Android Market, which opened to users in the autumn of 2008 alongside the first Android phone, the HTC Dream, and was rebranded as Google Play in 2012 when Google merged several of its content stores under one name. Developers can publish apps to it for a one-off registration fee, and it became one of the two dominant mobile app stores together with Apple's App Store. It also acts as the main channel through which Android devices receive updates to their apps and services.
Before and after
- 25 September 2008Release of DuckDuckGo
- 25 September 2008Launch of Shenzhou 7
- October 2008Construction of Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
- 22 October 2008Launch of Chandrayaan-1
- 22 October 2008Founding of Google Play
- 4 November 20082008 United States presidential election
- 13 November 2008Discovery of Fomalhaut b
- 26 November 200826/11 Mumbai attacks
- from 29 November 2008 to 19 December 2015Premiere of The Penguins of Madagascar
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- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations Security Council
- 5 October 1948Founding of International Union for Conservation of Nature
- 5 May 1949Founding of Council of Europe
- 1952Founding of European Parliament
- 1985Introduction of new shekel
- 1990Rise of K-pop
The era
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