Samsung Rebrands Its App Store as "Galaxy Apps"

Samsung has rebranded its app store and launched it under the name Galaxy Apps. In an attempt to take on the dominance of Google Play,the South Korean giant’s own Galaxy Apps store will be accessible to over 130 million users across 161 countries.

“Samsung Electronics launched Samsung Galaxy Apps, an app store that offers hundreds of apps exclusively available to users of Samsung Galaxy mobile devices. An improvement upon its predecessor, Samsung Apps, the new app store features apps that will allow greater customisation of mobile devices and will also function as a platform to offer various promotions and discounts” ,the Samsung Electronics told in a blog post.

The new Galaxy Apps update is sporting a cleaner and more streamlined interface. It seems like a faster, responsive and a visual refresh to the apps store. The update can be done manually through the settings section of the previous Samsung Apps.

Do share your reviews, if you’re already seeing Galaxy Apps on your Samsung smartphone.

Samsung Rebrands Its App Store as "Galaxy Apps"

Samsung’s App Store renamed as Galaxy Apps

With the Galaxy range of products expanding day-in-day-out, the Korean giant Samsung thought of renaming its apps services Samsung Apps giving it a new name of Galaxy Apps. This new name will from July 1^st this week and so just don’t panic in case if your Samsung App Store Icon disappears from the phone. Samsung has made an official announcement regarding this on the company’s official website and this change is basically just a rebranding move from the Korean tech giant. This means all the applications previously available on the Samsung App Store will now be seen at the Galaxy Apps.

In addition to changing the name of the Store, the layout and design of the Galaxy Apps is likely to be tweaked to an extent. So we can expect to see a redesigned UI. Let’s see how this change manages to invite ore customers to Samsung’s Galaxy Apps Store as it has been found that the Google Play Store still dominates for app downloading on all the Galaxy devices.

Moreover, a positive change could be seen with much Tizen phones coming out, this new App Store might serve the purpose of pulling its Galaxy customers from Android to Tizen platform. Well, things will shape with time to come ahead.

 

Samsung’s App Store renamed as Galaxy Apps