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Google is Paving The Way for Android 4.4 by Updating Apps

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The Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 might be arriving very soon, but Google has already been working on updating all of its apps on the Play Store, a couple of days before the Kit Kat announcement. They’ve just updated all of these apps (Hangouts may still not be updated for everyone yet, but it should be soon, which means you can enjoy SMS support): Blogger Calendar Chrome Drive Earth Gmail Goggles Google+ Hangouts Keep Play Magazines Translate Wallet This isn’t exactly the first time Google has done this, although perhaps they’ve never updated so many apps at once, and around the time of the new Android version launch. This may be because there could be a lot of new changes under the hood for Android 4.4, and Google needed to upgrade all of its apps to take advantage of those changes. That also means that unless you will get Android 4.4 soon, you might not be able to take advantage of those changes. Since Google is going to get the Linux kernel 3.10, if they took advantage of the kernel’s