> I don't know that I'd do it quite this way if it was my call to make, but I don't know what it's like to run the iOS app store, either. Presumably from that p

> I don't know that I'd do it quite this way if it was my call to make, but I don't know what it's like to run the iOS app store, either. Presumably from that perspective this is likely to solve more problems than it creates. In pretty much every topic about the App Store, I feel like we a always converge to the same issue : yes Apple is forced to do things (like remove old apps or comply to authoritarian governments) but they put themselves in those situations because they don’t want to lose control over app installation on iOS devices. On Windows, Microsoft could remove an app for any reason they would : there would be minimal impact on users and developers. Developers could choose to update their apps (to comply to new APIs if necessary) or to let them as abandonware for anyone to rediscover them in decades, even if it means some hacking or restoring an old environment : it’s technically doable. When Apple removes your app from the App Store, it’s gone basically forever.