FlickType Keyboard For iPhone For The Blind Shuts Due To Unfair App Store Rejections

A keyboard app for the visually impaired on iOS is shutting down, after the app confronted a number of “unreasonable” rejections from Apple’s App Retailer, the developer of the app has stated in a Twitter thread. In keeping with Kosta Eleftheriou, the developer behind FlickType, he’s pressured by circumstances to discontinue the iPhone keyboard performance of the app. The developer stated that this comes after a number of “unreasonable” rejections from Apple’s App Retailer in opposition to an up to date model of the app. “Apple has thrown us impediment after impediment for years whereas we attempt to present an app to enhance folks’s lives, and we are able to now not endure their abuse,” Eleftheriou stated.

This was not the primary time Apple tried to reject the app. Apple had, three years in the past, argued in opposition to the app three years in the past. Nonetheless, Eleftheriou stated that again then, he efficiently appealed and overturned their determination, and it hadn’t been an issue since, till now. He stated that the rejection historical past spanned greater than 40 pages crammed with “repeated, unwarranted, and unreasonable rejections.” The FlickType workforce has additionally filed a lawsuit in opposition to Apple. The tweets additionally request customers to cease auto replace of the app to retain the FlickType keyboard for the iPhone. The FlickType app on the Apple Watch will stay purposeful.