Apple is cleaning up its App Store. Many developers have received an email warning them that this and that application “hasn’t been updated for a long time” and will be withdrawn from sale if no update is implemented within 30 days, The Verge reports. The sending of these emails does not seem to depend only on the age of the last update: it is a measure that seems to be aimed mainly at applications that do not support certain recent technical innovations of iOS or large screens of iPhone models of recent years .
Some independent developers object to Apple’s decision, which penalizes small developers whose specific projects work perfectly. As explained for example Simon Baerker, “I have no bug reports, I still have downloads after 5 years, I don’t need V2 and yet Apple decides it’s time to go due to changes in the version of Swift that I don’t have time to implement.” » Emilia Lazer-Walker adds: “Games can exist as finished objects. These free projects are not viable if they need to be updated in real time, they are finished works. “Works that may therefore disappear for some in the coming weeks.
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