Apple’s First App Store Transparency Report [pdf]

The amounts are huge:

- 1,679,694 app submissions rejected

This number is only slightly above the total number of apps in the store. Interestingly, a questionable (?) reason of "performance" was the top reason for rejections.

There were also 428,249 terminated developer accounts due to fraud, and they claim that as much as 2,090,195,480 USD worth of fraudulent transactions were prevented.

Beyond these details, the transparency report itself is vague, as is usual.

Required as part of a lawsuit settlement according to this article:

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/19/apple-app-store-transpa...