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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy and welcome to our newest show called Google Play weekly in Google Play weekly we're going to be telling you about all the best things that have happened in the Google Play Store over the last week so without further ado let's get started let's start out with some good news over the last week's and new stats came in that showed that the Google Play Store surpassed the Apple App Store and total downloads this is a big victory for Google because it now means that they are the most popular mobile OS in the world when it comes to applications we're not entirely sure of the numbers but we're sure they were in the billions by now some amazing journalism by USA Today posited that the reason why the Google Play Store was more popular than the Apple App Store was because there were more Android handsets out there and iPhones some good work there in USA Today Apple may still have some boasting rights however even though the Google Play Store has more app downloads in the Apple App Store the Apple App Store still has a higher app revenue by a whole bunch however if we're not gonna let that stop ruin our day to day because today is Google's day Google Play Music got an update recently that allows it to be streamed to television to be a chromecast so the million billion trillion people who went out and bought it on the first day preventing me from doing so can have their music stream directly to their television there were two updates the first actually brought the support while the second brought some improvements we're sure competitors like Spotify and Pandora are working on their chromecast app right now but for now Google Play store it where it's asked since I don't have any videos shield or any other Tegra devices I can test this game with here's some of the footage from the official trailer for a hack-and-slash game it looks really good what I buy shield just for this game of course not but if I got shield I would probably buy this game it's only a dollar but sadly it's also only for Tegra devices well friends if you haven't had a reason to be angry at Microsoft this weekend you really wanted one this next story should help tide you over for a little while Microsoft has finally released Microsoft Office on Android upon a cursory glance it doesn't look that bad you can do basic edits to Word Excel and PowerPoint files my fellow video host Josh regarde took a look at it on his weekly show which took place just this last weekend and one that you should totally check out so is there a catch you bet there is in order to use Microsoft Office on Android you must first be an office 365 subscriber which run you ten dollars a month so in order to use Microsoft Office on Android you got a paid work every single month so does it get worse you bet it does not only as Microsoft not going to support Android tablets but nobody got fired over this terrible decision our last bit of news this week deals with an application was actually kicked out of the Google Play Store for looking too much like iOS 7's control center it's called control center and it was actually kicked out by Google for get this infringing on too many of apple's designs that's right Google used the I word instead of Apple - an app developer the app received a small update and was re-released to the Google Play Store Angry Apple bloggers predict probably correctly that the app will be pulled a second time from the Play Store the funny thing is is that while it looks exactly like the iOS control center control center for Android is actually a more powerful application even though it looks exactly like iOS 7 you can change the buttons inside the interface to change the functionality of the application if you want it you better pick it up quick because it's not going to be around for much longer that about does it for this episode of Google Play weekly to next week for a much better episode if you liked it don't forget to share with your friends and subscribe to our YouTube channel don't forget to check out our weekly new show with Josh Bergara our weekly Q&A with Christopher whoof and our Sunday giveaway where we give you free stuff every week as always thank you for watching and have a wonderful day