Android TV updated with better discovery for its 600+ apps

Android TV now has more than 600 apps available, and Google has updated the Play Store for the service, making app discovery better than ever before.

With the updated Play Store, Android TV can now browse all apps or selections of certain apps combined into over 20 collections. While this does an exemplary job at organizing apps for Android TV, we’re not sure just how useful it is. After all, the average user will only use a few well known apps for Android TV, such as Play Music, Pandora, Netflix, Hulu, and etc.

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For those that want to expand outside of well known apps, they now have a full catalog available to them over just a select few highlighted options. But, this does raise a question. How much is too much for Android TV?

Apple offers its users only 70 apps on Apple TV, inviting only a few developers to create content for the service. 600 Android TV apps and growing could quickly get cluttered and out of control.

Apps on TV gets weird quickly. Should Google put limitations on what developers release in order to provide a better quality service?

source: Variety

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