Apple stands by decision to terminate account belonging to WWDC student winner

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Apple was also concerned that customers wouldn’t understand that they weren’t running a normal watch face, and that Appstun deceived them by suggesting that’s what it was offering.

The company went back and forth with App Review, receiving multiple rejections over an app for designing Apple Watch faces.

One developer, Kosta Eleftheriou — who previously also settled a lawsuit against Apple over his app revenue lost to scammers — had raised awareness of App Store scams over the years, pointing to nefarious apps like a crypto wallet app that scammed a user out of his life savings; a kids’ game that contained a hidden online casino; and a VPN app that was scamming users out of $5 million per year, among others.

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Author / Journalist: Sarah Perez

Category: Technology

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Published On: 2024-08-30 @ 17:57:54 (1 days ago)

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