{"id":282167,"date":"2018-10-29T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=282167"},"modified":"2018-10-29T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T08:47:45","slug":"google-may-offer-android-app-subscription-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/282167-google-may-offer-android-app-subscription-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Google may offer Android app subscription service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/10\/28\/google-play-pass-subscription-findings\/\">Engadget reports<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/\">XDA<\/a><\/strong> contributor Kieron Quinn has found code references and a survey which imply that Google is considering an app subscription service.<\/p>\n<p>The survey mentions that the service would include hundreds of dollars of apps for a monthly fee, and would be called &#8220;Play Pass&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Any implementation of this service appears far away, however, as various questions remain on Google&#8217;s plate.<\/p>\n<p>One of these questions revolves around how Google would decide which apps are included in Play Pass, and which are excluded.<\/p>\n<p>Android app subscription services have been tried before, but given that the Play Store makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/google-play-vs-apple-app-store-revenue-q1-2018\"><strong>significantly less revenue<\/strong><\/a> than the Apple equivalent, Google may commit more effort into making this iteration a success.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/281895-google-kills-android-nearby-notifications.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google kills Android Nearby Notifications<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XDA contributor Kieron Quinn has found code references and a survey which imply that Google is considering an app subscription service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":163496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[397,9557,27343],"class_list":["post-282167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-android","tag-google-play-store","tag-subscription-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282231,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282167\/revisions\/282231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}