Nuked Apple warns it will remove apps from the app store that have n’t been’updated in a significant amount of time’.
Apple will remove the outdated apps from the app store, but any previously downloaded apps will remain on users’ devices. If no update is submitted in 30 days, the app will be removed from sale.
The free game motivoto is part of Apple’s app improvement system. Console games from 2000 are still available for sale.
Apple is threatening to remove his game, motivoto, because it has n’t been updated since March 2019. A number of app makers, like Robert kabwe, have expressed their concerns about the change.
The once-super-popular pocket God app still remains on the app store even though it received its last update in 2015. Kosta Eleftheriou, the developer of the flicktype Apple Watch keyboard, says Apple took down a version of his app because it has n’t been updated in two years.
Free projects are n’t suitable for updates or a live service model. They’re finished artworks from years ago. Games can exist as completed objects.
There is n’t a time stamp on the page. Apple did n’t immediately respond to the verge’s request for comment.
In 2016, Apple said it would start removing abandoned apps from the app store. At the time, it also warned developers that they would have 30 days to update their app before it got taken down.
Critics argue that mobile apps should remain available no matter their age. Others say the policy is unnecessarily tough on developers. Apple does n’t fully respect the work that goes into indie games.
