Recently Apple has since removed more than half a million applicationsApp Store, the official iOS marketplace. The data refer to the last quarter. Apple, like Google, periodically cleans up its store and removes applications that are malicious, of poor quality, or simply “zombie apps‘.
Namely: apps that have been abandoned by their developers and therefore no longer receive updates for a long time. It is precisely because of this systematic cleaning that the number of available apps in the App Store has fallen to the lowest level in the past seven years.
In the past quarter, Apple Removed 541,697 applications from the App Store. The data covers a heterogeneous group of applications: some had not been updated for many years and had in fact been abandoned by their own developers; other apps were removed for security reasons, such as not complying with the policies of the two stores or containing dangerous or fraudulent content.
The vast majority of the removed applications belonged to the category of so-called zombie apps: software that had not been updated for more than two years. Updates are important both because they ensure that the app works properly with the latest versions of operating systems and because they improve user security by removing any exploits and vulnerabilities.
Source: Lega Nerd
