Apple has been on an absolute bender lately when it comes to bad, dumb, and/or just generally confusing decisions. Whether we’re talking continuing to release “Pro" laptops with none of the features actual professionals are asking for, killing the App Store affiliate program, or other recent drama, Apple fans have been shaking their heads and saying, “Wait, what"" an awful lot this year. That train doesn’t seem to be stopping anytime soon, with the latest notice iOS developers found in their inboxes this morning. Basically, if you’re an indie developer and have anything that “simulates gambling," your game is being removed from the App Store in an effect to “reduce fraudulent activity." This is hitting some of the oldest games on the App Store, as if you roll the clocks back to the launch of the App Store ten years ago (and the jailbreak equivalents before then) an awful lot of the games were super simple card and dice games which more or less emulated those pocket blackjack or pocket poker handheld games that it seemed like every grandma in the 90’s owned.

Wow Apple pulled my almost exactly 11 year old Blackjack 21 game from the AppStore due to it simulating gambling AND me being an individual developer.
Not sure if I want to incorporate at this point to put it back in there as I never had time to update it fully for iOS 11+. pic.twitter.com/POXloALY09
— Patrick McCarron (@McCarron) August 9...