Apple Removes Thousands of Mobile Apps from China Store

earlier this year Applehad made a decision to remove all unlicensed applications from the App Store. The company informed all application developers and publishers about the decision and asked the developers to send their license numbers. to July 31 He had given so much time.

In this context, the technology giant from Cupertino downloaded more than 2,500 mobile applications in a week earlier this month. From Chinese App Store he had lifted it. According to Sensor Tower, among those affected by this cleanup that Apple carried out on the app store in the first week of July Zynga And Supercell There were also games from big names in the industry such as.

As of today, Apple has removed a total of 29,800 applications from the App Store China:

According to the latest data from research company Qimai, Apple, which started cleaning applications earlier this month, as of today, more than 26,000 of them are games. in total 29,800 applications Removed from Chinese App Store.

Apple generates huge amounts of revenue through the App Store China. At this point, according to a report shared by Sensor Tower, the company launched the App Store in China in 2019. from $12.6 billion He made a lot of profit. Despite this, this uncontrolled income obtained by Apple brings with it some problems such as security and privacy.

For this reason, the company has released many applications in the App Store in China in recent years. lifted, as a reason “They were violating Apple's rules regarding app updates” He used the following expressions: However, Apple is expected to remove thousands more applications from the App Store China by the end of the year.

According to Niko Partners data, as of June 2020, the App Store is among the top 100 applications in China. 97th of It has a legal license number. For this reason, the impact of removed applications on Apple's revenues is expected to be limited.