So I've got a lot of apps that have been consolidated into a container app. Like many of you, I got the 4.3 messages. After some grimacing, I can see the silver lining - for devs, for users, for Apple.
But I really wish iTunes Connect would add a forwarding option in our "Removed from Sale" apps that redirects to the container app. I added a bug-report (feature request) for this already, but I'm hoping more devs ask for this. Reasoning...
1. There's gotta be millions of dead app store links already floating around the internet. Why have those links go to this message "This app is no longer available in your country's store", when it can just jump to a live app? We can update our own websites, but some blogger that wrote about an app 3 years ago, isn't going to update their links.
2. Its also a dead end for actual App Store users going through their old Purchases. Doesn't need to be. Let us recapture those users.
3. Consolidation was / will be a big "ask" for many of us. And like I said, I can see the benefits. But in return, I don't think a simple redirect is a big ask of the App Store.
If consolidation was a mandate from higher up to clean up the store, this many broken links doesn't seem very clean.
If you agree, lets lobby for this. Bug report can be used for feature requests.