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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/1\/23333362\/apple-app-store-lawsuit-flicktype-kosta-eleftheriou-scams<\/a>
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Developer and App Store critic Kosta Eleftheriou has settled his lawsuit with Apple, according to a report from TechCrunch<\/em><\/a>. The suit, filed in March 2021<\/a>, argued that Apple made it difficult for him to sell his app<\/a>, Flicktype, on the App Store, after it seemingly lost interest in acquiring the tech.<\/p>\n

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 \u201ccrush\u201d developers competing with it through \u201cexploitive fees and selective application of opaque and unreasonable constraints.\u201d 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 way, right around the time that Apple and Epic were also duking it out in court<\/a> over how much power the iPhone maker should have over how software is distributed on iOS.)<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, which you can read more about here<\/a>, was dismissed at the request of Eleftheriou\u2019s company, Kpaw, earlier this summer. Apple didn\u2019t immediately respond to The Verge<\/em>\u2019s request for comment about the settlement.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Verge<\/em>, Eleftheriou said he wasn\u2019t able to comment on the settlement or his feelings about it. However, he was able to offer some suggestions about what Apple could do to improve the App Store going forward. He said that most of the suggestions my colleague Sean Hollister made last year in his article \u201cEight things Apple could do to prove it actually cares about App Store users\u201d<\/a> were still on the table, and would be a start. <\/p>\n