Will all the people who bought it be refunded? Or does Apple simply take the money and run, leaving customers with empty hands?
Are you saying that Apple shouldn't let developers stop selling an app?
That wasn't clear in the article. However as others noted: It's also been removed from their list of purchased apps, so if their iphone gets damaged, or it gets deleted from their phone due to a mishap, they're still out the cash they paid and left with empty hands.
> Are you saying that Apple shouldn't let developers stop selling an app?
They should do the same thing Steam does: Remove the store page and keep it available for redownload by customers who paid until it positively cannot function anymore.
Not if they have it on their mac/windows pc they sync with
> When an app is acquired, the acquirer usually requests for it to be pulled.