Apple settles lawsuit over its App Store moderation and power
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#635QG)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Developer and App Store critic Kosta Eleftheriou has settled his lawsuit with Apple, according to a report from TechCrunch. The suit, filed in March 2021, argued that Apple made it difficult for him to sell his app, Flicktype, on the App Store, after it seemingly lost interest in acquiring the tech.
The lawsuit alleged that Apple used its monopoly power as maker of the iPhone and as the company in charge of the App Store to crush" developers competing with it through exploitive fees and selective application of opaque and unreasonable constraints." Eleftheriou also accused Apple of doing little to stem the tide of copycat scam apps that tricked potential users of his app, a swipe-based keyboard for the Apple Watch. (This was, by the...