Apple deletes accounts of Russian developers

Since February 19, complaints of domestic mobile application developers about blocking their iOS accounts and deleting applications have started to appear on the Runet. 

Simultaneously with the ban, Apple sends out “letters of happiness” in which it explains its actions in violation of clause 3.2 (f) in the iDP Agreement (iOS Developer Program License Agreement) by the developer. 

According to the license agreement, as follows from the letters, “it is prohibited to perform any actions aimed at interfering with Apple’s software or related services, or the company’s business, by performing actions that may affect the performance or the way the App Store is used.”

There are also examples in the official document: submitting fraudulent reviews for your own application or some third-party application, choosing a name that resembles the name of another project in order to confuse the user, registering names in order to “stake out” them for yourself.

The developers claim that they did not violate anything. There are those who have not published applications at all yet. In all cases, Apple acted without warning, did not give time for corrections.  

It is already known about more than a dozen affected Russian developers, whom Apple accused of violating paragraph 3.2 (f). Some of them have already joined groups in Vkontakte and Facebook. On the forum iPhones.ru where this topic was first raised, there are already more than 8 pages of discussions.

Have you received a “letter of happiness” from Apple?