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Google TV app to include deprecated Android TV Remote app
Ewdison Then - Mar 1, 2021, 9:49pm CST
Just like with its messaging platforms, Google hasn’t exactly been consistent about its digital media ecosystems. Google News was once Google Play Newsstand which was once Google Play Magazines and Google Currents combined. Google Play Music was supplanted by YouTube Music and now the Google Play Movies & TV app has been renamed Google TV, which is different from the Google TV “skin” based on Android TV. To be fair, Google does try to consolidate things, like retiring an obsolete Android TV remote control app and shoving it into the new Google TV app.
Actually, let me rephrase that: Google s
been getting into social for a while now. It s just been doing it in a less lofty, more piecemeal manner than what we ve seen in the past.
Google officially pulled the plug on its high-profile Google+ service in the spring of 2019, as you may recall though, interestingly enough, it actually announced the timing of that shutdown exactly two years ago today. At the time, it seemed like the end of Google s social ambitions. But it s becoming increasingly clear that wasn t entirely right.
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