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Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store

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946 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 01 Jan 21 19:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.613s | source
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excerionsforte ◴[01 Jan 21 20:45 UTC] No.25606875[source]▶
Might as well call it Poison Pill. What a waste of energy on Apple's part and a perfect grounds for a lawsuit. Apple approved this app with no problems and all of a sudden there is a problem where nothing has changed. Take them to court and dispute it. I assure you they will not be able to prove that this app violates the contract that was agreed to.

What I see here as complacency on peoples' part here is ridiculous. Companies and people never stop until they are tested. Apple would have never made a small business contract for the app store had it not been for Epic's lawsuit.

There even a comment below where Apple had no issues featuring the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1470456860

This is winnable in court. Settle for Apple paying for the cost of re-brand and lawyers if they do not want to continue the dispute in court.

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1. meesles ◴[02 Jan 21 14:56 UTC] No.25613185[source]▶
What exactly is the dev supposed to sue for..?

Apple has full control of their platform and can make any arbitrary calls. If they wanted to censor all pg-13 material tomorrow, they could (though they would face consumer backlash).

One recent exception might be anti-competitive behaviors, but I don't think that applies here.

I think it's just hard learning that when you build your business entirely on a platform or via another business, you are at the mercy of their whims unless you have the resources to extract yourself.