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Apple Shares 2024 App Store Data: Rejections, Removals, and More

Anonymous123 said:
This is another reason why there should be alternate app stores available. Imagine a grocery store refusing to stock a product because the packaging didn’t look a specific way.
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Grocery stores refuse to stock products for all sorts of reasons. Including refusing to pay the grocery store for shelf space.
 
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sw1tcher said:
Apple tells us they employ "a comprehensive approach to combating fraud on the App Store, with teams across the company working to detect, investigate, and prevent malicious activity before it can reach users."

If Apple removed 38,315 apps last year due to fraud, doesn't that mean those apps and their malicious activity reached users before Apple caught them? 🤔
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"combatting fraud" doesn't mean 100% fool proof. apple never said malicious activity is impossible on the app store
 
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WilliApple said:
Just letting y'all know, I get rejected (Not my app being deleted) for this because Apple has strict guidelines on how an app should look.
One example is "The button cannot look like this, it has to look like this." it's so annoying...
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just letting y'all know, the exact reason is because OP likely has a button that's too small to press. i guess OP was vague with "it has to look like this" is because he wants apple to look worse than they are
 
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germanbeer007 said:
"combatting fraud" doesn't mean 100% fool proof. apple never said malicious activity is impossible on the app store
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iPhone user: Hey, Apple. How safe is your App Store? I'm concerned about accidentally downloading and installing a fraudulent and malicious app.

Apple: Don't worry. We have "a comprehensive approach to combating fraud on the App Store, with teams across the company working to detect, investigate, and prevent malicious activity before it can reach users."


Maybe it's just me, but if someone at Apple said that to me, my understand of it would be to don't worry because Apple can 100% stop fraudulent and malicious apps from getting onto the App Store and reaching users.
 
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germanbeer007 said:
just letting y'all know, the exact reason is because OP likely has a button that's too small to press. i guess OP was vague with "it has to look like this" is because he wants apple to look worse than they are
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“Your subscription icon is the same as your app icon”
 
WilliApple said:
Just letting y'all know, I get rejected (Not my app being deleted) for this because Apple has strict guidelines on how an app should look.
One example is "The button cannot look like this, it has to look like this." it's so annoying...
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Meanwhile they approve apps that have layouts that looks messed up on iPhone X/iPhone mini (both share the same assets)
 
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jz0309 said:
Well good, as a user I would hate to deal with 10 different button designs across 20 different apps…
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Agree! Meticulous detail to UI has been a foundational principal for Apple since the earliest days going all the way back to Susan Kare. Jobs himself obsessed over getting the UI just right.

I’d rather have that level of cohesiveness and perfectionism than 29 apps having 29 different styles of a button.
 
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DougieS said:
I know probably not the best link, but was a quick search at first - there are other examples where retailers have chosen not to stock simply because they don't like the look of a product. Most don't get made public, but my point still stands that it does happen.

Anyway, this is detracting from the actual topic of this thread.
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I have never heard a single case of a retailer refusing to stock an item because of the way it looks.

I don’t mind if Apple lay down some standards regarding the way apps look so long as it doesn’t stifle innovation. Not everything in life has to look the same. If Tim Cook doesn’t like it then maybe Apple should build more of their own bland looking apps.
 
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Aeronauts said:
We have no way of knowing if these figures are correct or not. Apple have lied in court before.

www.bbc.co.uk

Apple referred for possible criminal contempt investigation - BBC News

The tech giant had been ordered in 2021 to allow greater competition and open the App Store up to outside payment options.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Assume 7 million apps, 250 working days a year, 8 work hours a day, 2 apps per hour. That’s 1,750 people.

You don’t think it’s reasonable to expect Apple to have ~2,000 employees/contractors working on this?
 
Aeronauts said:
There seem to a lot of dormant apps that haven’t been updated for years. Do they ever get removed?
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Yes -- I've had a few of my older apps removed from sale because I didn't update them to use the latest SDK. They're not deleted and I can restore them by updating them, but the sales on those apps doesn't justify the effort.
 
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Aeronauts said:
They don’t. I think Apple have made up these figures for marketing purposes. They probably review every 10 apps then claim that is a representative selection of all apps.
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but this means apps with malicious behavior and malware hav 90% success of getting in the app store.
 
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