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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google Play comes up
Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
a16z Podcast | Truce for Mobile, Battle for VR
- ▶ 4:51 Benedict Evans But they sort of got around that part of the fragmentation problem for their own services by putting Google Play services on top of everything. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 15:19 Benedict Evans If you don't have the app, it will automatically pull down the app from play and start running it kind of chunk by chunk. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A Copernican Update ... In Tech, the Smartphone is the Center
- ▶ 14:32 Benedict Evans Over 95% of these things have the latest player version of Google Play services, which is updated, I think, every two weeks.
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 5:44 Mohsen Malayeri Uh, they are basically some, something quite similar to Google, Google play, which is a marketplace for, uh, uh, applications. 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy
- ▶ 12:52 Benedict Evans And of course, you know, this is the other, the thing that Sundar talked about last year, but didn't talk about this year, is that something like 95% of all live Android devices are running the latest version of Google Play services, which… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Messaging is the Medium
- ▶ 6:41 Benedict Evans Exactly, but the catch is, well, it actually takes you out to Google Play or to iTunes.
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile's Third OS
- ▶ 9:36 unnamed speaker How many apps are there in the, in the Android App Store today?
a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
- ▶ 10:42 Benedict Evans But as Samsung starts to shrink, and these other guys come up, it's actually harder for Google to stop those guys doing things, because one of them could just say, you know what, we're only going to sell devices with our own platform, and…
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 8:08 Benedict Evans Very briefly, it seems like the Maps and the App Store are crucial. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:21 Benedict Evans And so if you go to a handset where everything's happening inside web views, and all the APIs are happening on, as API calls on the web, and payments and all that stuff is done through a sort of set of neutral kind of APIs and what have…
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 25:24 unnamed speaker So, how do you get all these information out there without a marketplace, like Google Play Store? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 2:35 Benedict Evans They gave you these random numbers every now and then that never quite reconciled with each other, and they haven't given any statistics at all on Android in nine months, um, and they haven't, they've never given any data on Google Play.
- ▶ 3:14 Benedict Evans But the really interesting thing was they gave a number for revenue from Google Play.
- ▶ 18:38 Benedict Evans Um, and so they've come up with a story around games and a story around having Google Play and having movies.
- ▶ 30:01 Benedict Evans And so, um, this is called Google Play Services. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:07 Benedict Evans 93% of the devices that are hitting Google Play are on the latest version.
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 11:11 Benedict Evans There's two-thirds of Android, which is the one that Google gives numbers for, is outside China, and then there's another third of Android, which is in China, and doesn't have Google Play on it or Google Maps on it, and yet it's still… 5 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
- ▶ 8:07 Benedict Evans Both into Google Play Services, but into Google Now and all the other stuff that they're trying to do there.
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 14:47 Benedict Evans Knows what Android is going to mean in five years' time, and how that interacts with Chrome, and how that interacts with Google Play services, and where the innovation and the, the levers of, of, of interaction will sit on that platform.
- ▶ 26:15 Benedict Evans Um, and in contrast, of course, you see Google lifting all their innovation up the stack into the cloud, into Google Play Services, into Now, into Maps, into Plus, and so on.
What's Next in Consumer Startups?
- ▶ 7:27 Andrew Chen And this was so successful that ultimately the app became the most downloaded free app on both the app store iOS and also Google play for Android.