More than a million aplicaciones on Google plus Play alone have not received updates for at least two years and are therefore considered abandoned. Most come from Russia and China.
Every day Thousands of applications are uploaded to the Play Store from Google plus. The success of each is uncertain, unpredictable and uneven: some will be as fast as the one imitating iOS 16’s Dynamic Island, which has already reached a million downloads. Others try to stay afloat only to be abandoned.
The Big G doesn’t like the latter at all. Already in May this year, it was planned to eliminate almost a million abandoned aplicaciones, but that does not orinan that they will continue to exist. according to s Report published by MarketWatch, There are more than 1 million discontinued aplicaciones in the Play Storethe majority come from China and Russia.
Abandoned Aplicación Keys
A number of interesting key points surge from the report. As a starting point, Apple aplicaciones are updated more frequently than Google plus aplicaciones. The Android ecosystem tends to be much more neglected; Compared to the first quarter of 2022, there are 200,000 fewer abandoned aplicaciones in the iOS ecosystem compared to in150,000 increase on Android.
In fact, more aplicaciones have been abandoned than updated in the last six months. In this group registered those from Russia and China they are more likely to give up among the 12 countries registering the most applications. They are also the ones who activate security alarms most often.
From the entire group of discontinued aplicaciones 23% of them have no aparente privacy policy. And from this group, about 14,000 transmit geolocation data to advertising space sales services.
The group of aplicaciones that are abandoned the most They are aimed at children, with 37% of the total. 81,000 of these belong to the Google plus ecosystem and 75,000 to the Apple ecosystem.
Applications aimed at children suffer the most from abandonment
It is important to pay attention to these types of requests as they are often neglected Serious security and privacy issues may arise. This is not the case with regularly maintained aplicaciones, which often include bug fixes and security patches.
With the growing concerns about security and privacy For users of recent years, this question becomes even more important. In fact, Google plus has already deleted a large number of aplicaciones that it considers a security threat (or just plain malicious).
It is unlikely that any of these aplicaciones will be installed on our phones; its path is usually not very wide. however They are details worth knowing. We’ve always said that the number one security measure is an informed, common sense usuario, and this is one way to stay vigilant.