{"id":1448,"date":"2018-05-28T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T10:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zogspat.tk\/blog\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2018-05-28T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T10:23:47","slug":"deleting-my-apps-from-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"Deleting My Apps From The App Store…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five and a bit years after I released my first app, WeighMe, I’ve just deleted it and Pin Your Pics from the App Store. Here were the total downloads:<\/p>\n

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Total App Downloads<\/p><\/div>\n

The reason I’ve zapped them is simple: it doesn’t make sense to continue to invest serious amounts of time in Objective C, in [for Pin Your Pics in particular] what developed into pretty large and complicated codebases. Apple made an announcement quite recently that support for iPhone X screen dimensions is about to become a mandatory requirement, which was going to be quite a bit of work for me.<\/p>\n

But the more immediate death knell for Pin Your Pics came a few weeks ago when Google announced a change to their Maps API. Up until this month you could get an API key, and it would just stop working above a fairly generous threshold. Now you have to sign up with your card details. While my app usage is unlikely to trouble the new limit, it’s a chance I’m not prepared to take.<\/p>\n

I am a bit gutted that, when Google cut over the API, the app is going to break quite unceremoniously, which is a bit rubbish for people using it. But I hadn’t updated it in ages and it was starting to get fairly unstable anyway.<\/p>\n

I still code up the odd utility in Objective C but I’m not going to renew my developer subscription when it expires this year: I really can’t see myself publishing any more apps.<\/p>\n

Some interesting numbers buried in the 5k download total. More than half were in China. I have no idea why. Also, that spike last September was weird: 1.9k downloads that month alone. I did absolutely no marketing for either of the apps. Finally, to my lone ‘customers’ in each of Uzbekistan and Kazakstan, thank you for using my apps, whoever you are :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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