Don’t call it ‘Google Camera’, ‘Google Camera’ or ‘Gcam’: camera app created by Google Now called ‘Pixel Camera’After Google changed the name in the app store.

Google wants to make it clear that the camera app is its own, yes, but Pixel exclusive. This is something that has been practically happening for years, but until now Google had not made it official on its part.

Google’s camera app for Pixels

The Google camera app is a decade old and a lot has changed since its inception. Firstly, It was available for almost every Android mobile phone and added interesting options like creating spherical photos.

Google’s camera app over time Exclusive for Pixel phones, leaving the “global” version frozen, never updating again. Every new Google Pixel version came along with new versions of Google Camera.

The only way to use Google camera on a non-Google mobile phone is modifications often called Gcamand dozens of them are optimized for different mobile phones with different hardware. Now Google has decided to make this even clearer with the name change.

Therefore, listing the Google camera on Google Play changed all references from ‘Google Camera’ to ‘Pixel Camera’. What happened in the past with Google Launcher and Pixel Launcher. Currently it appears to be keeping the name Camera Go (which does not currently appear on Google Play).

This is a complete statement of intent Pixel camera is only for Pixelsand if you want to have its functions you better buy one. Now we need to know whether their modification will be called Pcam instead of Gcam.

via | 9to5Google

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