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I don't use ios for couple of years now, can anyone tell me what happens to apps installed in user's device once its removed from the app store?

As a matter of fact, I don't know what happens when an app gets removed from play store either, does it happen often, what happens to the installed apps?

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It still runs fine, but you cannot obviously reinstall it

Thanks! That makes sense, I would be pretty pissed if they removed apps from user devices too without their consent.

Both iOS and Android have app kill switches.

Probably not the best links but ...

http://www.macworld.com/article/1134930/iphone_killswitch.ht...

http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php/android-has-ap...

> but you cannot obviously reinstall it

From the App Store, no, but from your iTunes backups you can. All you need is the .ipa backup file associated with a purchase under your Apple ID.

I've got this for several apps (iMAME and Gridlee, to name two) that Apple's done similar to.

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