{"id":45748,"date":"2024-11-12T17:18:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=45748"},"modified":"2024-11-12T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:18:58","slug":"bodyreader-v-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/12\/bodyreader-v-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodyreader v. Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/11\/12\/apple-china-lawsuit-antitrust-app-store\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/11\/12\/apple-china-lawsuit-antitrust-app-store\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-11-12\/apple-fights-fortnite-like-china-lawsuit-over-app-store-model\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports that the case &#x2013; the first of its kind to be heard in Beijing&rsquo;s intellectual property court &#x2013; bears similarities to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/epic-games-vs-apple\/\">Epic Games&rsquo; 2021 lawsuit against Apple<\/a>. Bodyreader claims Apple unfairly removed their app citing &ldquo;dishonest&rdquo; behavior, while also challenging the company&rsquo;s 30% commission on app purchases and its control over the iOS ecosystem.<\/p><p>According to court documents reviewed by Bloomberg, Bodyreader argues that Apple&rsquo;s enforcement of App Store policies is inconsistent. The developer notes that after their original app was removed, they successfully published an identical app under a different name, &ldquo;Qilin Century,&rdquo; which remains available on the App Store.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: Bloomberg reports that the case &#x2013; the first of its kind to be heard in Beijing&rsquo;s intellectual property court &#x2013; bears similarities to Epic Games&rsquo; 2021 lawsuit against Apple. Bodyreader claims Apple unfairly removed their app citing &ldquo;dishonest&rdquo; behavior, while also challenging the company&rsquo;s 30% commission on app purchases and its control over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-11-12T22:19:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"3dc9b4ed-8a13-4559-bde2-21caf48670f4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-11-12T22:19:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/APcm07YoTRVm94iHK9IZw9A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,38,1547,31,1837,26,41,209],"class_list":["post-45748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-china","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45749,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748\/revisions\/45749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}