Apple began offering a «free app of the week» back in 2012 as a means of highlighting some of the App Store’s best titles and encouraging users to start..
Apple began offering a “free app of the week” back in 2012 as a means of highlighting some of the App Store’s best titles and encouraging users to start downloading. Google, belatedly, is following in Apple’s footsteps with its own newly launched “free app of the week” section on Google Play. However, we understand that Google has not yet committed to make this a full-time feature.
Instead, Google Play’s “free app of the week” is something the company is testing only in the U. S. for a four-week time period. Internally, it’s being considered a pilot program.
The feature was initially spotted by Android Police , which noticed the section had begun appearing on the Play Store on both desktop and mobile, featuring a free download of the normally $2.99 game Card Wars – Adventure Time from Cartoon Network.
VentureBeat reports the section was introduced last week, but Cartoon Network says that it’s not aware of any app being promoted before its app. The current promotion runs from Thursday to Thursday, ending on March 30, 2017.
