This will be the rewards program that will come to the Google Play Store

Google wants to reward all those people who decide to spend a few euros on one of the many applications that swarm through its official store, the Google Play Store. A good way to encourage the habit of paying for applications that we use every day and to which, on occasions, we do not pay enough attention because they are precisely paid. It's funny how our way of thinking works, being able to shell out more than 1000 euros for a mobile phone but then thinking that 4 euros for a game is wasted money.

To this end, in the version of Play Store v11.5, 'Play Points' have been added, which are virtual currencies that are obtained when the user buys an item (film, magazine, book) or application through the Play Store. These virtual currencies, in turn, can then be exchanged for real 'money' to buy other apps Even, it's still not entirely clear, that credit could be used for purchases within the application, the so-called 'In-Apps'. In the end, everything stays at home.

Spend on the Play Store to get free apps

It is not yet known exactly how these points will be earned, if for each application the user will take a certain amount or when he exceeds some type of level (that groups a certain number of applications) then the user would be rewarded.What we can be clear about is that these points are going to have an expiration date It is also not known how the expiration date will be applied, if it will increase for each purchase that we do or if it will go for the reward derived from different batches of purchases. Logically, the user will have a page where all the punctuation records will be kept.

The first to receive this new points reward program have been the Japanese. In this particular country, for every 100 yen spent, the user receives 1 point. If we convert to euros, 100 yen is about 80 euro cents What we don't know is how much 'real' money is equal to that point received. Will it be worth it and will it really serve as an incentive for the user to decide to buy more applications?

Other news from the Play Store application

We not only have this new point reward function as a novelty. These are the other news that we will see with the next Google Play Store update.

• Application permission notice. When we start downloading an application, especially those that contain purchases inside, Google will warns of special permissions through a pop-up window. Now, this window could change to a lower layout tab, as can be seen in the screenshots.

• New voting system. It is not very well known how this new voting system works or for what purpose it has been created. Will users be consulted to be able to apply some type of query to apply promotions? To see what new features the applications can have as a survey? In the internal code of the application, the people of Android Police have been able to see the word 'Winner' (Winner) as a result of the votes.Nothing more is known about it.

Via | Android Police