Apple withdraws 25,000 gaming apps from the App Store in China

Apple has confirmed the withdrawal of “many” illegal gaming applications whose developers are driving them out of the App Store in China.

Apple sweeps up the Chinese App Store

Apple, Apple withdraws 25,000 gaming apps from the App Store in China,
As we read in The Wall Street Journal, the company has confirmed in a statement that it has eliminated “many” gambling applications. This would have met the standards of your app store:

“Gambling applications are illegal and not allowed on the App Store in China,” Apple said in a statement on Monday. “We have already eliminated many applications and developers who have tried to distribute illegal gaming applications on our App Store, and we are watching our efforts to find them and keep them from being on the App Store.

The company has not published a specific number, but only mentioned “many” from the Chinese state-owned CCTV channel. By last Sunday, however, 25,000 registrations are said to have been withdrawn, which despite this number would not even account for two percent of the 1.8 million registrations in the country’s App Store.

Apple started taking action against gaming applications earlier this month to provide the affected developers with the following statement:

“To reduce fraudulent activity on the App Store and to comply with regulatory requests to combat illegal online gaming activities, we no longer allow betting requests to be submitted by individual developers. It includes both real game applications and applications that simulate a gaming experience.

Therefore, this application has been removed from the App Store. While you can no longer distribute game applications from this account, you can still send and distribute other types of applications to the App Store.”