wp-plugin-hostgator domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114ol-scrapes domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/29\/23049576\/apple-outdated-apps-removal-extension-90-days<\/a> Recently, several developers complained<\/a> about how Apple threatened to remove their apps from the App Store because they hadn\u2019t been updated in a \u201csignificant amount of time.\u201d Now, the company has responded \u2014 by issuing a press release<\/a> effectively saying that nobody was downloading the apps anyways. <\/p>\n The notice, released on Friday evening, reads in part:<\/p>\n As part of the App Store Improvements process, developers of apps that have not been updated within the last three years and fail to meet a minimal download threshold \u2014 meaning the app has not been downloaded at all or extremely few times during a rolling 12 month period \u2014 receive an email notifying them that their app has been identified for possible removal from the App Store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n We\u2019ve heard about those emails before \u2014 last week, developers like Robert Kabwe<\/a> and Emilia Lazer-Walker<\/a> reported getting them, and expressed distress that they had 30 days to update their apps, or they\u2019d be removed from the store. Other developers shared similar experiences on Twitter, saying that the policy, and the amount of time they were given to make changes, were unfair to indie developers.<\/p>\n They also expressed deeper concerns about Apple deciding to wipe away an entire class of apps because it thinks they don\u2019t belong on its store. Lazer-Walker argued that games should be allowed to be finished, and that they can still be valuable without being a service. Kabwe expressed a similar idea, pointing out that you can still buy console games from the 2000s. To put the argument another way: Apple removing these apps is a bit like it removing movies from the iTunes Store just because they show up with black bars on modern TVs (though I do understand that interpreting a video signal is less complicated than running code).<\/p>\n Sometimes software is done. I know the World expects growth and change and improvement forever (for free) but sometimes the software is done and it ships and that’s the end of the story.<\/p>\n ‘Old’ and ‘stable’ are not failure states. On the contrary — they indicate success. https:\/\/t.co\/ELEzf1jjOj<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 arclight (@arclight) April 24, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Apple\u2019s explanation does clear up why it, as some developers noted, seemed to apply the rules inconsistently. For example, one developer noted<\/a> that Pocket God<\/em>, a popular game from the iPhone\u2019s early days, hasn\u2019t been updated for seven years but is still on the App Store. Apple is basically saying it\u2019s still up because it\u2019s still popular.<\/p>\n From one angle, this reasoning doesn\u2019t necessarily gel with the first half of Apple\u2019s post, where it says it removes old apps to ensure \u201cuser trust in quality apps,\u201d and to improve discoverability, security and privacy, and user experience. After all \u2014 if an app is problematic because it\u2019s outdated, more downloads would make a bad app a bigger issue. Who\u2019s being harmed if there\u2019s an outdated app almost no one is downloading?<\/p>\n But Apple says it doesn\u2019t want the App Store cluttered up with apps that both developers and users have forgotten about. It has enough problems<\/a> making it easy for users to find good apps as it is, and it\u2019s easy to imagine Apple seeing deleting old, seemingly irrelevant apps as a good solution. <\/p>\n While Apple\u2019s post may feel like a slap in the face to developers worried about losing something that they spent genuine time and effort on, the company is extending a tiny olive branch. Its post notes that anyone who receives a notice from here on out \u2014 and those who already received a notice \u2014 will have 90 days instead of 30 to update their app before it\u2019s removed. While that should make it easier for developers to save their apps, it doesn\u2019t let the programs \u201cexist as completed objects,\u201d as Lazer-Walker put it. Apple, it seems, is only interested in the completed objects that are still getting eyeballs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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