Apple App Store elimination plan: 540000 apps deleted in the third quarter

With the official launch of Apple's latest iPhone 14 series, a variety of problems have been exposed. A series of bugs in hardware configuration and system have attracted everyone's attention, as well as the news of the Apple App Store, which is not only about advertising, but also said that the Apple App Store deleted 540000 apps in the third quarter, and the total number of apps in the store hit a new low in seven years

Apple's App Store makes a great contribution to the company's revenue every year. The number of applications in the App Store has been relatively stable for many years, but the data of the latest quarter shows that the number of applications in theApp Store has decreased significantly

According to Finbold's data, the decline in the number of applications on the App Store has reached a new low in seven years. In the third quarter of 2022, the total number of applications on this platform will be 1642759. In the second quarter of the same year in 2022, the total number was 2,184,456. The last time the number of applications was so low, it was 1672271 in the third quarter of 2015.

This shows that the number of App Store applications decreased by 24.79% month on month in the third quarter. In that quarter alone, 541697 applications withdrew from the App Store

At present, Google Play App Store, which has the largest number of apps, has 3,553,050 apps in total, the App Store ranks second, and Amazon App Store ranks third, with 483,328 apps in total.

As shown in the above data, the Apple App Store deleted 540000 apps in the third quarter, which is a very important information for many small partners. The number of applications has decreased significantly, and more small partners said that Apple is now simply an "application cleaning master".