By an estimate they are over 1.5 million abandoned apps They are available in the catalogs ofApp Store He is born in Play Store, but they haven’t been updated in a long time. In some cases, apps haven’t received an update for over half a decade.
This is according to a study by pixalate At the end of the first quarter of 2022, the abandoned applications would amount to 1.5 million. They are almost equally divided between iOS and Android. 869,000 are in the Play Store catalog and 650,000 in the App Store catalog. Obviously, some of the names are returning: in the sense that if an app doesn’t receive updates for Android, it most likely won’t receive them for iOS either.
In Q4 2021 and Q1 2022, 1.3 million apps received at least one Updating Basically, the recently updated apps are numerically lower than the ‘deceased’ ones. Even more striking is the data: There are about 5 million apps in the two app stores. It means that those defunct and left to their own devices by their respective developers make up about 30% of all existing apps.
Then, Pixalate’s analysis continues, there are 314 thousand apps that haven’t been updated in over 5 years. 184,000 of these are in the Apple Store, 130,000 in the Google Play Store.
That’s no small problem: an app that hasn’t been updated for several years runs the risk of not being compatible with the latest smartphones. There is also a risk of it becoming a potential consumer safety concern. We wouldn’t be surprised if Apple and Google decide in the near future to update their policies and automatically remove apps that haven’t received updates for at least 24 months.
Source: Lega Nerd
