Google received’t allow you to purchase motion pictures and TV exhibits from the Play app beginning in May

Google will not promote motion pictures and TV exhibits from the Google Play app beginning in May, the corporate introduced (via Ars Technica). Instead, you’ll be capable to get motion pictures and exhibits from the Google TV app.

“On Google TV, you will find the same experience you are used to on Google Play Movies & TV with the latest new releases, rentals, deals, and great recommendations for you,” according to a company support page. Content you could have already bought can be out there within the Google TV app, and you need to use Play credit score / present playing cards to purchase issues there when you want.

Ultimately, this doesn’t appear to be too dramatic of a shift. However, this modification and Google’s resolution to close down Google Play Music in favor of YouTube Music might each point out that Google is lessening its reliance on the Play model as its storefront for digital items. Google Play will nonetheless be your vacation spot if you wish to purchase apps, video games, and books — at the least for now.

Apple additionally fractures gross sales of its content material throughout completely different apps. Apps are within the App Store, music is in iTunes, motion pictures and TV exhibits are within the Apple TV app, and books are in Apple Books.