Homegrown Apps in Australia get their own Play Store Page

It looks like Google might be experimenting with some location based style app marketing in the Play Store. At least in Australia anyways. A new section was recently made available to the user down under simply titled “Made in Australia” It offers up a list of games and apps that were created by local developers in the country.

The section opens up as a Homegrown list of free and paid games and apps that have all been developed locally. Some titles you will easily recognize, like Pocket Cast, Jetpack Joyride and LinkBubble. Interesting to learn where some of these devs originate from.

You do need to be in Australia, or at least fake it that you are there, in order to pull up this section. At the time of writing this there hasn’t been any other locales showing up with their own lists, yet. It is possible that this is a promo, but we are thinking it is more likely a test to see if it is well received or not. We all love to support our favorite developers, but we also like to support our local communities and our country. Some might be more inclined to buy an app if they know the developer is local.

Any thoughts on this?

Via Android Police