Apple recently has removed around 58,000 Chinese apps from the App Store over the last two weeks, a drastic increase compared to normal.
The report explains that 33.5 percent of the removed apps were games, which shouldn’t come as a huge surprise given the high number of games that are present in the App Store. The removal rate over the last two weeks has been much higher than Apple’s typical rate. On June 15th, Apple removed 22,000 apps from the Chinese App Store, which is between 6 and 10 times greater than Apple’s normal rate.
Apple’s decision to mass remove apps from the Chinese App Store has been met with mixed reactions from users and developers in the country. As noted by Thepaper.cn, some view the removal of apps as a counterattack by Apple on Tencent, the company that owns WeChat. Apple has come under fire in the past for taking a 30 percent cut of donations sent via Chinese social networking apps, such as WeChat. Chinese data anlystics company ASO 100, however, says that Apple didn’t specifically target those types of with this mass removal.
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