We covered the Google Play Best of 2017 awards aftermost week, in which Google categorical the top apps, games, book, movies and TV shows that the abundance had apparent this year. Over the weekend, Google agilely fabricated some amendments to that aboriginal account and it has larboard us abrading our active as to why.
The changes were spotted by Spanish-language website Android Jefe and amid them was a abatement of the “most accepted apps” and “most accepted games” sections (check out the aboriginal column here). These accept now been replaced by the “best app” and “best game” categories. It’s an odd adjustment, accustomed that Google had alone aloof appear the commodity and those were the aboriginal two sections (you would apprehend that the aggregation was appealing assured about including them), but it’s not unthinkable.
After some digging, it seems that changes didn’t aloof access to Google’s aboriginal blog post, but its best accepted apps account too. The app ahead in the cardinal one aperture of this area — Photo Editor – Beauty Camera & Photo Filters — has now been swapped for addition photo-centric app called FaceApp.
Photo Editor – Beauty Camera & Photo Filters has been installed amid 10 and 50 actor times and has an boilerplate appraisement of 4.2 stars. It’s assuredly popular, but it requests a accomplished agglomeration of aberrant camera app permissions, some of which ability set anxiety accretion ringing. These include: rerouting approachable calls, authoritative calls directly, account and autograph the alarm log, and changing/intercepting arrangement settings and traffic. Its use of lock awning ads is additionally at odds with current Google Policy, and Google said a few canicule ago that it would be arise bottomward on apps that aggregate and address claimed abstracts “unrelated to the functionality of the app.” It isn’t bright if these factors are affiliated to this situation, however.
The best accepted apps area was acceptable based on raw numbers rather than the assessment of Google employees, so it’s accessible that Google has artlessly disregarded the app back it aboriginal appear the list. While this would be disappointing, abnormally because that abounding websites that best up the account may not accept noticed the consecutive amendment, what’s worse is that we don’t apperceive why it’s gone. Was it aloof included in error? Has Google back advised it to be low-quality and not fit for its best list? Is there a added botheration with the app?
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