Apple purges ‘wrong apps’ in gambling content crackdown

Tech-giant Apple missed its targets in its war against gambling-related apps.

BBC reported that app developers were fuming mad over the removal of their apps in the App Store, which they said had nothing to do with gambling. Some of the apps that were removed by Apple include a Polish magazine, a GIF-sharing service, and a platform for sending clips of Xbox games to friends.

Wojtek Peitrusiewicz, co-owner and writer of Poland-based iMagazine, took to social networking site Twitter on Thursday to complain that their magazine app was taken off the App Store 24 hours after the approval of its 3.0 update. Peitrusiewicz said he received a note from Apple explaining that the removal of iMagazine from the App Store was made “in order to reduce fraudulent activity” and “to comply with government requests to address illegal online gambling activity.”

“As a result, this app has been removed from the App Store. While you can no longer distribute gambling apps from this account, you may continue to submit and distribute other types of apps to the App Store,” Apple’s letter to Peitrusiewicz read.