Apple Developer Program Member Voluntarily Dismisses Its Complaint vs. Apple
Plaintiff Digital Will has voluntarily dismissed its complaint against Apple after being wrongly accused, it said, of violating the Apple Developer Program (ADP) license agreement, said its notice Wednesday (docket 5:23-cv-04266) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San…
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Jose. Each party will bear its own court costs and attorneys’ fees, said the notice. Digital Will, a Japanese games and apps developer, alleged in an Aug. 21 complaint that Apple, in a March 2022 “boilerplate message,” abruptly deactivated its ADP membership for fraudulent conduct without identifying “any specific issues” that prompted the deactivation. Digital Will’s ADP membership “has never been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity,” said its complaint. Apple never answered the complaint after being granted two deadline extensions in September and October. Nov. 29 was Apple's last deadline to answer or otherwise respond to the complaint.