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May 11, 2022 07:00 am
Original Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/05/11/0049231/research-finds-over-15-million-abandoned-mobile-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Research Finds Over 1.5 Million 'Abandoned' Mobile Apps
ellithligraw writes: Analytics company Pixalate found that there are over 1.5 million abandoned iOS and Android apps. This analysis comes after Apple's announcement of changes to their App Store for abandoned apps, prompting a discussion on the Web. "Pixalate claims they crawled the App Store and Play Store to analyze all apps available for download based on their last update to determine their degree of 'abandonment,'" reports InfoQ. "Based on the previous definitions, Pixalate found over 650k iOS apps and about 870k Android apps to qualify as abandoned apps (haven't been updated in over two years). Of those, just about 180k iOS apps and 130k Android apps qualify as super-abandoned (haven't been updated in at least five years)." Note that according to Statista there are 4 million iOS apps, and 3 million Android apps available.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/05/11/0049231/research-finds-over-15-million-abandoned-mobile-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
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