The application dedicated to filter and hiding false reviews on the e-commerce site has been removed from the App Store.
A report by the threshold said that Amazon asked Apple to remove applications and mandatory Cupertino-based technology giants.
What application does Amazon Apple want? The application in question is fakespote and functioning like a web browser extension.
It is integrated with the Amazon website – not official – and identifies false reviews on various product pages.
This application was launched last month in the App Store What amazon problem with the application? Amazon has claimed that this application compromised user data by injecting a code that can also provide misleading information about its customers.
User data such as email, address, credit card information and even a risky browser history, according to Amazon.
Why is Apple agree to delete the application? Amazon quotes guidelines (5.2.2) which stops giving from using third-party content in the application without permission.
Amazon asks Apple to delete the application below this guide, which states, “If your application uses, accesses, monetizes access to, or displays content from third-party services, make sure you are specifically permitted to do it based on the Terms of Service Using.
Authorization must be given to request .
“What does the application developer say about removal from the App Store? “Amazon is willing to bully a small company like us that exhibits gaps in their company,” said Saoud Khalifah, founder of Fakespot.
He claimed that the application had seen more than 1.5 lakh recent installation.
“I was shocked by Apple to decide to sided with Amazon without evidence,” Khalifah said further.
What should Apple say about the deletion of the application? In a statement to the threshold, Apple said, “this is a dispute over intellectual property rights initiated by Amazon on June 8 and in a few hours we ensure that both parties come into contact with one other party, explain the problems and steps for developers to take the application They are in their store and give them a lot of time to solve the problem.
On June 29, we returned to reach the week’s fakespot before removing their application from the App Store.
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