Last September Apple notified the developers by email that it was going to proceed to eliminate all those applications that did not comply with the new best practice guides from the App Store. The threat has been fulfilled and the purge has already begun, and during the month of October alone, a total of almost 50.000 applications have been removed from the iOS app store, 238% more than the monthly average up to that month.. And this has only just begun.
The figures come from Sensor Tower, and reflect how the eliminations have been 3,4 times more than during the previous months. They have also given other data, such as that most apps come from the Games category, reaching 28% of the total. The figure that we do not know is the one that refers to the cause of the elimination, since not only the applications that did not comply with the publication guidelines were going to be removed from the store, but also those that Apple considered were abandoned, without being updated for a long time, like those that have not yet been adapted to the screen of the "new" iPhone.
The proliferation of PUAs in the App Store has been a serious problem that Apple seems to have finally taken seriously. You just have to see the image in the header of the article as an example: dozens of apps blatantly copying the name and icon of a successful app, and that they roam freely through the App Store, deceiving many users who believe they have downloaded the original app, and that contrary to what they expected they are, in the best of cases, with an app full of advertising that does not It delivers on what it promised, and in the worst case they have lost their money. Hopefully this is just the beginning of a "cleaner" App Store for everyone.
