Google kicks 60,000 low-quality apps out of Play Store

The Google Play Store is now much lighter and refreshed thanks to 60,000-odd low quality apps being taken off it. The search giant apparently booted the apps from the store because they failed to live up to Google’s standards. This was by far the largest app-cleaning exercise we've seen on the Play Store.According to a TechCrunch report, the spring cleaning of sorts took place in February. However, not all of these were pulled out by Google. A part of the apps could have probably been taken off Google Play by the creators themselves. Unlike Apple’s App Store, Google has handed app developers a free hand over the store. While Apple screens every single app that goes up on its Store, Google exercises the <em>“wait and watch” principle on its own Store. This is not always a good thing, since it allows the inclusion of sub-standard and low quality apps until someone from Google manages to spot and delete them.

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