Ian Kullgren, reporting last week for Bloomberg Law: Apple Store Workers in Atlanta Filed for First Union Election ★ Apple could then only cull the apps from developers who didn’t respond. It’s a hard problem and I can see the upsides of Apple automating the clearing of truly abandoned apps from the App Store, but it seems like there ought to be a way for developers of not-updated-for-a-while apps and games to just log into Apple’s developer portal and hit a button to vouch that they still work and don’t need an update. But we can’t play iPhone games that are three years old unless the developers constantly devote time and attention to making sure they keep up with latest SDKs every 2-3 years? Pixar doesn’t have re-render Toy Story every couple of years. We can read works of literature that are centuries old. We can watch really old movies today - movies that aren’t just years or decades old, but generations old. I get the feeling this has a particularly heavy cost for indie game makers - and, ultimately, the players and would-be players of their games. Sometimes you open an older project and it takes a lot of work to get it to recompile against the current SDKs. It’s often not just a matter of opening a project file in Xcode and recompiling to get a new build. And there have been various technical transitions over the years where something like this has been necessary (for some definition of “necessary”) like the 32-bit to 64-bit transition.īut in practice, there are a lot of apps that haven’t been updated in a while that continue to run just fine. This seems logical on the surface - culling apps that haven’t been updated in a while sounds like a good way to keep everything in the App Store fresh, for lack of a better word. Remove the outdated apps from the App Store, any previouslyĭownloaded apps will remain on users’ devices. “If no update is submitted inģ0 days, the app will be removed from sale.” While Apple will “You can keep this app available for new users to discover andĭownload from the App Store by submitting an update for review inģ0 days,” Apple writes in the email. Time” and gives developers just 30 days to update them. “App Improvement Notice,” Apple warns it will remove apps from theĪpp Store that haven’t been “updated in a significant amount of In a screenshotted email sent to affected developers, titled Apple Is Culling Apps From the App Store That Haven’t Been Updated in Two Years ★Īpple may be cracking down on apps that no longer receive updates.
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