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What is the Play Store?
The Google Play Store is the official app store for Android devices, offering millions of apps, games, movies, and books. It's where users find and download software for their phones and tablets. This story shows how Google is always tweaking how we discover those apps, even with small experimental features like 'Expand everything'.
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