The Android Market will finally die on June 30
Do not adjust your
calendar, this isn't an April Fools prank, nor a time travel experiment. Google
has just announced that the Android Market will no longer function after June
30 this year. Yes, 2017.
The Play Store has
been available for around five years now, but a little known fact is that it
only works on Android 2.2 and later. Devices that are still in use with Android
2.1 and earlier iterations of the OS have been stuck with the Android Market
for all this time. And it worked. In fact, it still works.
Until June 30, when it will die an honorable
death, roughly 7 years after Android 2.1 launched. From July 1, people who
still use such ancient devices will no longer be able to access the Android
Market at all - and it goes without saying that new app installs will thus be a
no-go too. The change will take place without any notification on the device,
because of some unnamed "technical restrictions" in the Android Market
app.
If you have a phone that is on Android 2.1 or
an even earlier version of the OS, perhaps this would be a good time to upgrade
to something newer?
Source: gsmarena
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