The Android Market, now known as the Play Store, launched on this day in 2008. Here are a few things you might not know about it.
The Google Play Store has been around for over a decade now, but it wasn’t always called the Play Store. It originally launched on this day in 2008 as the Android Market, roughly coinciding with the T-Mobile G1 Android phone. This original app store launched in a very different state to the current Play Store. Here are a few things you might not know about the Android Market on the anniversary of its launch.1. It only had free apps at first One of the more notable things about the Android Market was that it initially launched with only free apps. That’s right, developers couldn’t initially offer paid apps or even in-app purchases when the storefront launched in October 2008. Developers still had to pay a one-time $25 registration fee to publish their apps on the store though. Google originally announced that the Android Market would have over 50 apps available at launch.
