{"id":32899,"date":"2021-06-18T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32899"},"modified":"2021-06-18T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T21:01:17","slug":"appshopper-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/18\/appshopper-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"AppShopper Shutting Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appshopper.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/14\/appshopper-is-shutting-down-on-june-30-2021\/\">Marianne Schultz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appshopper.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/14\/appshopper-is-shutting-down-on-june-30-2021\/\">\n<p>We&rsquo;ve had a great run, getting our legs under us a few months after the launch of Apple&rsquo;s App Store in 2008 but it&rsquo;s not feasible to keep the site up anymore. The largest factor was Apple&rsquo;s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/08\/01\/apple-apps-affiliate-program-terminated\/\">remove apps from its affiliate program<\/a> back in 2018, which eliminated the largest source of revenue for AppShopper. Additionally, the App Store has changed dramatically over the years, with many developers moving to a free-to-download model and adding in-app purchases, decreasing the need to wait for a price drop in order to try an app, one of AppShopper&rsquo;s key features.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/02\/apple-removes-apps-from-their-affiliate-program\/\">Apple Removes Apps From Their Affiliate Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/25\/apple-cuts-app-and-iap-affiliate-commissions\/\">Apple Cuts App and IAP Affiliate Commissions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/18\/appadvice-removed-from-the-app-store-in-2015\/\">AppAdvice Removed From the App Store (in 2015)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne Schultz: We&rsquo;ve had a great run, getting our legs under us a few months after the launch of Apple&rsquo;s App Store in 2008 but it&rsquo;s not feasible to keep the site up anymore. The largest factor was Apple&rsquo;s decision to remove apps from its affiliate program back in 2018, which eliminated the largest source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-06-18T21:01:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"5d1dcaea-546b-4f5c-b26c-6b5feb75d852","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-18T21:01:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXR3K6lRrT1yybGtf63XYUg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,31,1837,1451,96],"class_list":["post-32899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-sunset","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32900,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899\/revisions\/32900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}