If you thought it didn’t make sense to visit the Android Market to rent a video for viewing on your TV or purchase music for your PC, apparently you weren’t alone. Google is combining the Android ...

In a move that’s sure to put both Apple and Amazon on notice, Google has announced that it’s replacing the Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore with one service called Google Play.

Since launching Google Play (née Android Market) in 2008, Google has never made a change to the US store that it didn’t want to make—until now. Having lost the antitrust case brought by Epic Games, ...