Apple warns developers that some of the waste applications will be treated. According to the latest version of the Appliance Audit Guide published by Apple, certain mature categories of applications do not “update, improve or attract users” and apples may lower them. Previously, the articles would have rejected only cloning or saturation applications.
The Apple Early Guide warned developers not to collide in saturated application categories. According to the regulations, “App Store already has too many farts, hiccups, flashlights, fortune tellers, dating, drinking games, and love books. Unless they provide unique, high-quality experiences, we will reject them.”
The updated version published during the previous WWDC Conference warned developers not to “specify for creating variations for existing application categories or popular applications”. The current list includes, in addition to dating applications, flashlights and fortune-tune applications, wallpaper applications, simple timers and sound effects.
The new guide states: “If these applications are not updated, improved or unattractive to users, we will remove them from App Store.” Apple explains that these applications “are mature on App Store” and that they will not accept new submissions unless they provide a “meaning difference or improvement” experience.
The Apple Initiative is designed to enhance the application discovery experience of App Store. At the WWCC Development Conference, Apple also launched a personalized application referral and marketing tool to help developers expand their business and re-integrate existing users. The removal of low-quality applications has helped to improve the quality of App Store and to make it more accessible to those developing the effort.
In addition, apples focus on alcohol-drinking games, menstruation, hiccups, which are described as “low-quality”, “silent” and “false-false” applications that may be completely denied access to Apple Developers’ programmes for developers who submit such applications repeatedly.
According to external reports, the Apple’s existing App Store improvement process will inform developers when applications are outdated or download low so that they can improve before they are exposed to downside risk.
In other words, the new wording in the App Store Guide makes it clear that applications that conform to the “Fatch Application Rules” may fall from App Store and that apples have issued a clear warning to developers.
