Why has Apple started removing Iran-based apps from its App Store? Iranian iOS Apps which facilitate transactions for businesses and entities based in Iran have started disappearing from the App Store. The US tech giant opened up its App Store to the Iranians in September 2016. Reports over the weekend suggest that one of the largest e-commerce start-ups in the Middle East, Iran’s Digikala service had its app removed by Apple. “Unfortunately, there is no App Store available for the territory of Iran,” according to Apple. TechRasa reports: Iranians are gadget oriented people, they love their gadgets and tend to buy the latest products. There are 40M smartphones in the country and if you are wondering about the number of iPhones, there are 6M iPhones in the hands of Iranians right now. iPhone Market is that big to the point that we have reports of 100K smuggled iPhones each month into the country. That’s about 1.2M new iPhones being imported illegally into the country each year which is a Billion dollar market in Iran. This number is only for iPhones and it doesn’t reflect the market from after-sale services, accessories, in-app purchase and many other revenue models around the main [...]
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