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Removing applications – and all their baggage: Deleting (or "uninstalling") an app on Mac OS X is easy: you just move it to the trash.
But the process of removing applications was clearly imperfect, as Apple pulled down some applications only to restore them a few days later.
Earlier this week, when Apple notified developers that their applications were being removed, it said that it was removing applications with "overtly sexual content".
I won't get into the argument of whether or not Apple should be removing applications that do not explicitly violate the terms of service, because that argument is happening in a million places around the internet at any given time.
We'll soon know how Apple decides which apps it will remove, as it plans to begin reviewing and removing applications from the App Store starting tomorrow – the same day as its iPhone 7 event.
There are 3rd party applications that can assist removing applications that do not have uninstall routines - or do not fully remove themselves.
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When asked why Virus Shield had been removed, a spokesperson for Google said: "We remove applications that violate our policies, such as apps that are illegal or that promote hate speech.
A quick menu allows you to easily add and remove applications or you can drill down through the menu system to get to your desired application.
Not only does Apple remove applications from the App Store—I Am Rich was taken down yesterday, for example—but it's now emerged that the company can remotely disable applications from individual iPhones.
Back when Windows Phone 7 was still pretty much a big mystery to everyone, Microsoft quietly hinted that their new OS — or more accurately, their new OS' application store — would be able to remotely remove applications from user's handsets.
"We could unpublish it from the catalogue so that it was no longer available, but if it was very rogue then we could remove applications from handsets – we don't want things to go that far, but we could".
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