The use of smartphones in the period from July to September increased so rapidly compared to last year at the same time. Because of this, downloads on the Google Play Store have increased dramatically.

It is stated that in Q3 2020, Google found 28.3 billion downloads on the Google Play Store. These results beat Apple’s AppStore, which only got 8.2 billion downloads.

If calculated from the beginning of the year, Google itself has found 80.6 billion downloads on the Google Play Store. While the AppStore only got 26.6 billion downloads.

The most downloaded category on the Google Play Store is the Games category, followed by the Education category and the third position is occupied by the Business category. Here are the details:

Number of Apple App Store and Google Play mobile app downloads worldwide from 3rd quarter 2016 to 3rd quarter 2020 (in billions)

Most popular Google Play app categories as of 2nd quarter 2020, by share of available apps

Google today announced some of the changes brought to the Google Assistant. This change provides support for users to be able to control applications on their smartphones using voice commands.

So what are the benefits of the update to the Google Assistant? Recently the 9to5Google site uploaded a video showing one of the uses for the Google Assistant which can control Android applications.

In the 20-second video uploaded to YouTube, it appears that a man is wearing Nike Adapt shoes. Then the man opened Google Assistant and ordered the Nike Adapt application to tie the two shoes he was wearing until 100%.

As a result, Google Assistant immediately opened the Nike Adapt application and carried out the command as mentioned by the man, namely tying his two shoes up to 100%. Of course, this makes the man not need to use his hands to press a button to tie his shoes.

Not only can you tie the shoe, it is known that users can also check the battery of the Nike Adapt shoe and instruct the Google Assistant to change the color of the shoe is just a voice command.

Of course, this is still one use for updating the Google Assistant. Users can still find ways to take advantage of the Google Assistant to instruct applications to do things that can make it easier for users.

Gmail is now one of the most used email services for people. How not, because Gmail provides complete support from Google and is free to use by users with a Google account.

But talking about Gmail, recently Google has officially announced that it has now changed the logo of its Gmail service. Yes, if previously the Gmail logo looked like an envelope, now its appearance has changed quite a bit.

It is known that now the new Gmail logo looks simple where Google shows the letter ‘M’ rather than an envelope illustration. However, the letter M is still taken based on the old Gmail logo illustration which is already very iconic.

The thing that makes this logo very different from the old logo is the use of color. Because the new Gmail logo now comes with the Google logo color composition, namely red, yellow, green, and blue which is also used in other Google services.

The reason Google changed the Gmail logo is to make all Google services have a more harmonious logo. The reason is that changing the Gmail logo makes the service look more compatible with Google Maps, Google Photos, and many more.