Apple purges 46,000 apps from its Chinese App Store

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https://www.techspot.com/news/88136-app ... store.html

Apple removed nearly 30,000 apps over the summer and today:

"...Apple removed more than 46,000 apps from its China store on Thursday, marking the largest single-day purge ever. Games made up the vast majority of the deletions, with some 39,000 titles taken down. Notable examples include Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Identity and NBA 2K20. Research firm Qimai said that only 74 of the top 1,500 games in China remain in the App Store...

...The ISBN rule does not apply to free games, however. Several F2P games remain in the store, including Call of Duty: Mobile, Honor of Kings, and Game for Peace, China's version of PUBG. Apple began warning about the takedowns in February, and several developers reportedly switch to a free-to-play model to avoid going through the ISBN application process....

Regarding how this affects Apple's profit the article points out "Most of the nearly 75,000 deleted apps were likely garbage that had made all the money they were ever going to make."