Apple App Store appears to be widely removing outdated apps

This is very stupid. While the replenishment of apps is practically something they can well justify, the 30 day timeframe is exploitative.

If the officered at least 120 days (somewhere 4-6 months), my guess is that there’d be much less of a problem here.

Developers deserve more lead time than that for what is clearly low urgency work. Really need it done this month? Pay for it!

What a ridiculous abuse of power.

> While the replenishment of apps is practically something they can well justify, the 30 day timeframe is exploitative.

That does seem arbitrarily aggressive, especially since Apple has allowed apps that look terrible on recent iPhones for years.

Mixed feelings based on the article. On one hand, I feel like my parents and kids often start using crappy, out-of-date apps that cause issues on their device. On the other hand, just using a simple heuristic like last updated date seems like a poor choice. Clean the App Store, but be smarter about it.

(btw - my Mac auto-capitalized "app store" - classic Apple)

Big discussion of the original source yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31135972

we iOS devs pay 99 bucks every year just to put up with this kinda crap from Apple…