Google’s Play Store ratings will soon be tailored to your device and country

Google has announced plans to change the way the ranking and review of the play store appears for users in various countries and on different devices, ultimately offer a more accurate look on the quality of the application or game for your specific situation.

Because the Play Store was first launched, the star ratings and written reviews have become the most direct way to measure the quality of the application or game when comparing it with some alternatives offered.

From November 2021, the mobile version of the Play Store will display a special rating for the user country, and from the start of 2022, special rankings for user devices (such as tablets, can be used, and Chromebooks) will be displayed.

Google quotes a variety of reasons for changes, such as when special bugs for only one region negatively affect the ranking of the application globally, or when the application tablet experience increases significantly but the ranking does not reflect the large amount of money users.

The technology giant also states that this ranking directly has an impact on the visibility of the application in the Play Store, so that certain applications may have a continuous position of increasing in search results, or buried thus based on experience in other areas or on other devices.

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We see these features as a considerable increase in how the application will be selected and even purchased in the future, with users given far more realistic expectations about how it will function for them specifically.

Especially when looking at people such as weather, streaming, and applications related to payments, there is no doubt that the quality of this service will vary by wildly depending on the support of a payment platform of a country, weather radar and compatibility of streaming services.

We anticipate this will have a flow effect where areas with smaller populations will no longer see results dominated by applications that are popular in countries with large populations, and increased relevance of this application will continue to get local approval.

This granularity rate must re-help the application narrows their focus on certain devices that aim to work with it. Applications that require a larger real estate screen such as audio suites, images, and videos that will not suffer as much as possible from the cellular version of their tablet-centric design, for example, and the same applies to be imposed.