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Apple’s pruning of the app store has continued, beyond the previously reported sexy and Wi-Fi cull. According to TechCrunch, Apple has started to target “cookie cutter” apps, ones that were designed using a template from an app-building service. However, they’re not targeting all apps made this way, just ones with almost no functionality—mirroring a single RSS feed, or acting as a business card. Essentially, the glorified web apps, with functions that can be matched by a bookmark.

While cutting out the almost useless apps seems to be a positive step in improving the app store experience, will Apple’s current trimming of applications stop there? TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid thinks that ebooks might be next in the firing line. After all, a great number of the ebooks in the app store are public domain titles that are packaged up and sold for $0.99. It certainly isn’t too far-fetched, given Apple’s recent pruning of the app store, and how many duplicated novels already exist.

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