@interjc: Where's the fill light?
Summary
Apple is cleaning up low-quality apps in the App Store, including dating, flashlight, wallpaper, and sound effect apps. New submissions will be rejected unless they offer a significantly different experience. At the same time, vulgar apps such as drinking games and simulated farting or burping are banned, and developer accounts that repeatedly submit may be actioned.
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Where’s the fill light?
小鹏Digital (@RocM301): Junk “dating, flashlight, wallpaper, sound effect” and other low-quality apps will be cleaned out of the App Store by Apple. New submissions of these types are also basically being rejected, unless you can truly create a distinctly different experience. By the way, vulgar filler apps like drinking games and simulated fart/burp games are also being banned; developers who repeatedly submit such apps may have their accounts terminated.
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