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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy and welcome back to another episode of Google Play weekly this week we're going to talk about not one but two applications that were brought back from the dead the death of all of the swing copter clones as well as the fate of twitch without further ado let's get started first up this week we have some good news because rocket player has made a triumphant return to the google play store a couple of weeks ago it was pulled for unknown reasons we did reach out to the developer but could not get a full reason as to why this happened thankfully it doesn't matter anymore because the issue has been rectified and rocket player has been returned it to the google play store if you want to pick up the application it's free in the Google Play Store so here's a fun fact when swing copters first came out it was the 63rd search result when you search the Google Play Store for swing copters now all those clones are dead thankfully google has taken steps to keep this from happening anymore a report out of the Guardian states that Google has taken a more active role in curbing the clones of dog new ins laid spiral game we don't know if Google is being more proactive or if people including dong himself simply filed complaints on the other applications that can be argued but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter that much the clones are gone for now so earlier this week amazon scooped up twitch for the amount of nine hundred and seventy million dollars this comes as a shock because pretty much everyone was primed for Google's I'm going to take over we all assumed it would somehow be integrated with YouTube and it seemed like a match made in heaven then Google backed out and Amazon made the purchase and that all took place in the same day according to twitch everything will remain as is for the time being a lot of people seem to be upset but they didn't screw up comiXology so who knows maybe this could be a good thing a new study that just came out shows that mobile usage on the web is higher than desktop usage the surprising part of the report is that people aren't using that many applications after Facebook YouTube in a handful of google apps the stats drop off dramatically and is almost exclusively whether social media and media streaming based a lot of pundits have made a lot of predictions but frankly none of this surprises me the things that get the most mobile data are the things that fit into the Venn diagram of being insanely popular and insanely data hungry it would be nice if people tried more apps though last and certainly not least the squeak t-mobile has added a few more music services to their music freedom promotion and people are mad at them about it okay so here's the deal t-mobile has officially added Songza rdio grooveshark blackplanet and radio paradise the problem apparently is that they haven't added google play all access yet some people have attacked t-mobile due to net neutrality concerns but frankly this is a promotion and not a permanent thing so I think a lot of those arguments are unfounded it does suck that all access isn't there yet but it will likely be added sooner or later so I think we must exercise patience rather than lashing out so who wants to see some trending applications as usual if you want to check any of these applications out you can find the links in the print and companion which is in the video description below first up this week is locket lock screen you may remember this as the application that let you click on ads make money but they have since changed their tune their new app is a lock screen replacement application that shoots news directly to your lock screen it's pretty well designed and works well even though it's in beta it's also free which is nice google news and weather was brought back from the dead this last week and with it came a huge update first and foremost it's now available in the Google Play Store free of charge it's also received a huge UI update that brings the popular card you I into the mix it's rolling out right now so it may still read is incompatible for some people otherwise check it out pushbullet got an update this last week that seems pretty innocuous except for one big thing with this update you can now reply to text messages directly from your computer instead of just seeing the notifications this practically doubles the usefulness of pushbullet and the application is free to use so why not right lockable is an application lets you put a lock screen on your Android wear device it's a fairly simple premise and lets you do things like have a pin on your wear devices so you can keep it secure the app is free to use but to get the pin and pattern unlock you'll have to pay for it using in app purchases last up this week is an update to nova launcher along with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements you'll also get several new app drawer transitions to let you customize your app drawer just a little bit more the transitions are circle slide up zoom and fade which are pretty much self-explanatory if you're a nova user already the update should be rolled out by now if you want to stay up to date on the latest and greatest in android news and reviews i recommend going to android authority calm clicking on the little menu thingy and heading to our app section where you'll see our latest news reviews our indie app of the day segment and our meet the dev segment once again I'm Joe Hindy the android authority app guy right below my body is a subscribe button which you should totally push if you want to follow android authority myself with the rest of the video team you can find our social media links in the video description below if you're hanging out for a minute and you know you want to we have a couple of Awesome videos linked up for you right over there and in the video description below including Josh a pagar and I playing swing copters as always you can find all of the stuff that we talked about in this episode links in the written companion which is in the video description below don't forget to pet it there as always thanks for watching everybody and have a wonderful day