Apple in October of this year removed from the App store almost 50,000 applications. Such statistics leads the Analytics firm Sensor Tower. Went under the knife programs that have not been updated, not supported by developers or never downloaded by users.
Apple regularly clean corporate directory. However, in October it was recorded abnormally high number of remote from the App Store apps. This month disappeared from the store 47 300 apps – 3.4 times more than the average for recent months.
About 28% of the deleted names were of the game. The second most common application relating to the entertainment category (8,99%) and books (8,96%).
Apple has announced plans to conduct a large-scale purification of the App Store from outdated and irrelevant applications last month. This was stated by the developers that received the official request from the company.
“Since the beginning of the work App Store in 2008, the number of products displayed in it, has grown steadily to the current time were 2 million apps. Software for iPhone and iPad has been downloaded on the device at least 130 million times. Unfortunately, some of them do not work properly. There are in the App Store and the apps the users never downloaded on their devices. Also in the shop a lot of products that were created for earlier versions of iOS and never updated further. Soon they all will disappear from the App Store”, – stated in the message Apple.
Store for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, deleted apps that have not been updated, do not support the actual or faulty work – the so-called “zombie apps”. Apple gave developers 30 days to release updates. Despite deletion, users will be able to use previously installed application, but will not be able to reinstall it.
Previously, Apple regularly published statistics App Store for the number of available games and applications. However, now it is irrelevant, as all have long known that along with Google Play is one of the two best shops of mobile applications, and profit the best.
