And Google seems to be constantly offering a multi-month free trial of Play Music, so you can try it out for free for a few months to see if you like it before paying for it. (Some of the personalization comes from Google's Songza purchase.) A $9.99 monthly individual subscription gives you unlimited skips and an ad-free music stream. Listen to music for free or with a subscription: Google Play Music offers a competitive alternative to other music services, such as Spotify and Apple Music with personalized playlists and radio stations, podcasts, albums, and individual song tracks you can listen to for free or with a subscription. The app also includes Google Play Protect, which periodically scans your device for potentially harmful apps and checks apps before you download them from the Google Play Store. Google claims only 0.05 percent of Android devices that download apps solely from its Play Store have a potentially harmful app. Protects device by vetting apps: Google uses in-store and on-device monitoring to guard against harmful apps.

The Play Store also serves as an entertainment hub, letting you buy or rent movies, TV shows, books, and music, which you can watch or listen to on your Android device, Chromecast-connected TV, and through the Chrome browser on your Mac or Windows PC. He's worked with the likes of Forbes, WeWork, General Assembly, Chase Bank, Tech in Motion, and SXSW, among others, through in service of making tech a bit more accessible.With the Google Play Store app, download apps and games for your Android phone or tablet. In addition to freelancing for Android Police, Conor is the Lead Writer for, a tech publication focused on helping small businesses grow and succeed. Now, more than half a decade later, he covers everything from new devices and big conferences to small startups and business trends.

After being talked out of sports writing by someone working for ESPN Chicago ('it's the same thing every year, it's like purgatory'), Conor decided that the ever-evolving world of tech would be a much more interesting topic to focus on. In fact, he'll gladly ruin a friendly dinner in service of lambasting Apple devices to those that use them, which he admits is one of his worst personality traits. Conor has been staunchly in favor of Android since graduating to a smartphone from his hot pink Motorola RAZR.

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