I feel sick. Apple just sent me an email saying they're removing my free game Reason because its more than 2 years old.
It's part of their App improvement system.
This is not cool. Console games from 2000 are still available for sale.
This is an unfair barrier to indie devs. pic.twitter.com/7XNcLfiEcR
— Protopop Games (@protopop) April 23, 2022
A Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it may be cracking down on apps that no longer receive updates. In an email sent to affected developers titled “App improvement notice”, Apple warns that it will remove applications from App Store that did not go "updated in a significant period of time” and gives developers just 30 days to update them.
Various application makers such as the developer of protopop games, Robert Kabwe, expressed his concerns about the change. Kabwe says on Twitter that Apple is threatening to remove its fully functional game, reason, because it hasn't been updated since March 2019. Meanwhile, Kosta Eleftheriou, the keyboard developer FlickType Apple Watch, says Apple has disabled a version of its app made specifically for the visually impaired because it hasn't been updated in two years.
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Na App Store Improvements page from Apple, the company says: “We're implementing an ongoing app review process, removing apps that no longer work as intended, don't follow current review guidelines, or are out of date.🇧🇷 There's no timestamp on the page, so it's not immediately clear when Apple last published or updated the post.
