Apple Purges Near 25K Gambling Apps
Apple has removed around 25,000 illegal gambling apps after the Chinese government rebuked the company for continuing to sell them in their online iPhone store.
"Gambling apps are illegal and not allowed on the App Store in China," Apple said in a statement on Monday. "We have already removed many apps and developers for trying to distribute illegal gambling apps on our App Store, and we are vigilant in our efforts to find these and stop them from being on the App Store."
From CNET:
According to 2017 figures from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, there were 1.71 million apps on Apple's local app store. App stores operated by Chinese vendors offered some 2.32 million apps. Google's Play Store is banned in the country.
App Annie estimated that China accounted for 39.9 billion downloads on Apple App Store, second to the US's 40.1 billion, at US$27.7 billion in revenue. Asia-Pacific contributed almost 60 percent of total consumer spend on the app store and 49 percent of downloads worldwide.
- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com
