Apple keeps working to fight against illegal gambling distribution through their app store, this time the operation against illegal gambling was made in china.
When the big tech company wiped at least 4,000 apps tagged with the keyword “gambling” and another 500 apps tagged with the keyword “lottery”
According to the statement made by the company they moved “many apps and developers” that were trying to distribute illegal gambling content and that they are “vigilant” in their efforts to detect any such apps and stop their distribution across the App Store. READ SO: NORWAY GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP WITH APPLE TO BLOCK ILLEGAL GAMBLING
Despite the move was made to show full compliance with Chinese regulations local media seem it like not enough because the apps have already become available to a number of iPhone and iPad users as they have been downloaded and can still be used and even updated.
the purge affected developers who had uploaded apps that had had nothing to do with gambling. Is important to highlight that china is Apple’s largest market, second only to the United States.
