What happens to apps after developers pass away?
They die too.
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After discovering that indie game developer Stewart Hogarth had passed away earlier this year, journalist Craig Grannell began thinking about what happens to a creator's work when they die. He wrote an article, When a dev dies, their apps should live on, questioning policies that app stores have (or don't have) in place to archive a developer's work after death.
Stew Hogarth's family has set up a fundraiser benefitting The Freeman Heart & Lung Transplant Association.