Apple and China, China and Apple, in recent months there have been many controversial news that we have known between the North American giant and the Asian country and today we are going with one more. Apple has removed approximately 94,000 games from its app store in China in 2020, which are added to the list of apps removed by Apple from the App Store, and beware because it might not stay there and the figure will continue to increase in 2021 Now, is it Apple’s fault? If you want to discover it, we invite you to continue reading.
Was it a whim of Apple?
Well no, obviously not, the elimination of this number of applications has not been a coincidence and, far from it, Apple’s whim. This movement has been the response that Apple has had to make to the demands of the Chinese authorities, in fact, the developers of these applications had already been warned previously.
Everything is due to the obligation, on the part of Apple, to comply with Chinese laws and the most affected have been the developers of paid games, which had to have an official license from the authorities to be able to “be sold” within the App Store. In addition, of all the games that have been removed, it is estimated that only a small part of all of them will be able to obtain such a license to be able to be available again in the Apple application store in China.
Where is the controversy?
How could it be otherwise, a piece of news involving Apple and China could not be without controversy and that is, the Chinese law that has caused the removal of such a number of applications from the App Store has been in force since 2016, which Which raises the question of many how is it possible that Apple has been able to avoid enforcing this law for so long?
But beware, what is not so clear is the number of applications that have been eliminated, The Wall Street Journal cites the advocacy group Campaign for Accountability who affirms that there are 3,000 titles eliminated, while, on the other hand, the company of monitoring the applications business Sensor Tower believes that the figure is really higher, considering that up to 94,000 applications have been removed from the App Store in China, and that, in addition, more could add to that number in 2021.
Finally, Apple has not detailed the name of all these applications and does not specify the exact reason why this movement has happened, what it has done is to issue a statement ensuring that these types of procedures and decisions are carried out. carried out thoroughly to finally make the fairest decision that complies with current laws.