Apple jeopardizes many iOS apps

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After Google announced that it was doing a big spring cleaning of the Play Store, Apple is now getting ready to do the same. The company told developers that it was going to pull from its store listing all applications that hadn’t recently been brought up to date, unless developers submitted an update for approval within the next thirty days. Though an application might disappear from the App Store listing, it will remain available and functional for current users.

On social media, independent game developers have criticized Apple’s policy to eliminate old apps. “Games can exist as completed objects,” wrote Emilia Lazer-Walker on Twitter, whose free games, now a few years old, are targeted by this sweep. “These free projects aren’t suitable for updates or a live service model, they’re finished artworks from years ago.”

⇨ Ars Technica, Samuel Axon, “Apple will delist App Store apps that haven’t been updated recently.”

2022-04-25