Apple Removes 540,000 More Abandoned Apps From the App Store, As Developers Complain: Done, It’s Not Abandoned Yet

app store deleted others 540,000 applications in the third quarter of 2022. app store from Mansana fell to its lowest level in 7 years. And many do not agree with this purge. Apple claims they abandoned appsbut developers complain that a finished application is not a failure.

At its peak, the App Store held 2.25 million apps. This presents an unsolvable visibility problem for Mansana. When they search for something, users do not go beyond the first 20-30 positions in the list of results, they get tired. And only a limited number of applications fit on covers, ratings, and store listings.

The result is that 90% of apps in the App Store or from the Google Play Store, completely invisible For users. They will never recognize them, and therefore they are not bought or downloaded. They don’t give money to Apple or its creators.

Added to this is the additional problem of applications that clones others, or that they exist only to make money from advertising and even to spy and steal data. These apps are of very low quality, they add nothing and act as a stopper for apps that are worth it.

Why is the App Store removing thousands of apps?

In such a scenario, it is not surprising that Apple Removes Hundreds of Thousands of Apps. You need to lighten your store so that quality apps are visible.

Only in the third quarter of 2022 deleted 540,000 apps belonging app store. In total, more than 3 million applications have been removed throughout its history.

According to Finbold, this is an evolution since 2015. As we see now 1.6 million apps, the lowest amount since 2015.

It’s already far below google play storewhich has 3.5 million apps. amazon app store remains in 0.4 million.

Fewer apps is not a bad thing. On the contrary, we all know that most apps in the App Store or Google Play Store very low quality when not something worse, like malware. And every successful app has thousands of clones that are identical or lower quality.

Apple claims to remove abandoned appswhich have not been updated for the last 2-3 years. The problem is that an outdated app doesn’t mean it’s abandoned. I may be done and working 100%and it no longer needs to be updated.

Indie developers with limited resources criticize Apple’s “apps as a service” culturewhich are constantly updated. And they cite consoles or Steam as an example, where they sell games that are 20 or 30 years old.

Many developers received an email from Apple informing them that your app will be removed from the App Store after 30 days if it is not updated:

I am sick. Apple just sent me an email saying they are removing my free game Motivoto because it’s over two years old. It’s part of their app improvement system. Is not cool. Console games from 2000 are still available for sale, which is an unfair barrier for indie developers. pic.twitter.com/7XNcLfiEcR

— Protopop Games (@protopop) April 23, 2022

“Old and stable are not failure states. Rather, they indicate success.“he complains another developer.

Indie companies criticize not only this deduction for the sale of finished productsbut Apple only gives 30 days to update them before removing them.

Recently, Apple has softened the conditions, and now Give a period of 60 days to updateand also takes into account whether the application has been downloaded or not. But it’s still an unfair situation: what if they didn’t download it, because invisible on the App Store?

FROM erased from 540,000 applications belonging app store in the third quarter of 2022, Mansana determined remove apps that don’t make money. That’s their right, but it’s not fair to the hundreds of humble developers who barely make a living and would be worse off if they were kicked out of the App Store.