American Technology Giant Apple has removed over 30,000 applications from its China store on Saturday 2nd, with game applications making close to 90% of the removed apps.
The purge happened at 4:15 am local time on Saturday and began with 2000 apps, before a bulk of removals followed. The store remains with approximately 200,000 game applications as of Saturday evening of which 160,000 are freeware.
Apple had sent a reminder to game developers on July 8 regarding its plans to conduct the purge, if they did not comply to regulatory requirements for payments by end of July.