A couple of weeks ago Twitter announced through the support account that it stopped updating the application for Mac, an application that it was withdrawing at that time from the Mac App Store and that it would stop working 30 days after the announcement of its withdrawal.
That move was taken advantage of by the competition, especially by Twitterrific reducing the price of your app by more than half to try to capture those users who needed to find an alternative to the official client. However, Tweetbot has made no move on this, at least until yesterday.
And I say until yesterday, because it was not really a movement, but a scare to death that caused a large number of users, users who saw how the application had disappeared from the application store for Mac. But also, it had also disappeared from the iOS app store, a movement did not seem to make sense and set off many alarms.
Apparently, and as we can read in the account of Paul Haddad, developer of Tweetbot, the withdrawal of all its applications from both the application store for Mac and the application store for iOS was due to a problem with the developer account renewal, a renovation that in theory was scheduled to be done automatically.
The Apple developer account has an annual cost of $ 99 per year, and if due to an oversight or accident it is not renewed, all your apps are automatically removed of all the application stores where they were available, as we have seen after the problem that Tapbots has had.
A few hours after announcing the problem your applications had suffered in both the Mac App Store and the App Store, all applications from this developer are available again, showing the position in the ranking of Apple applications and with all the evaluations it had received so far.
This again puts Apple's policies on developers and buyers in question. The former, because if the products are arbitrarily eliminated (even temporarily), it affects the credibility of the developers; While, on the other side of the coin, the buyer sees how on many occasions, and arbitrarily, he cannot install the application he bought, either because Apple withdraws the product or the developer withdraws it. This greatly affects customers, who, being the last link in the chain, see a product that they ALREADY PAID disappear and that is removed from the store, and from the purchased list. A lousy sales policy that has even worsened from the moment the iTunes Apps administration was removed ... nonsense.
This again puts Apple's policies on developers and buyers in question. The former, because if the products are arbitrarily eliminated (even temporarily), it affects the credibility of the developers; While, on the other side of the coin, the buyer sees how on many occasions, and unilaterally, he cannot install the application he bought, either because Apple withdraws the product or the developer withdraws it. This greatly affects customers, who, being the last link in the chain, see a product that they ALREADY PAID disappear and that is removed from the store, and from the purchased list. A lousy sales policy that has even worsened from the moment the iTunes Apps administration was removed ... nonsense.