> This policy is just a way to clear out old, unpopular apps from the store Except popularity doesn't correlate with utility when it comes to apps. Probably on

> This policy is just a way to clear out old, unpopular apps from the store Except popularity doesn't correlate with utility when it comes to apps. Probably only addictive games and social network apps will pass whatever arbitrary threshold has been set. This will harm any one off apps built to satisfy a niche purpose downloaded by a small set of users. Which Apple probably think are not important, like all of the little high street shops, except cumulatively they might affect a majority of users. Also if it's measured by "downloads" rather than "installed", then it could take out larger more widely used apps that are considered complete by both authors and users, but don't have enough daily new users to pop up on their radar as important enough... this is similar to the "maintenance" fallacy of NPM, where frequent patches = better, even though if your package is small and well written you should be making no patches as a sign of quality.