Apple Has the Right to Refuse Service to You - DTNS 5228
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Plus, the Pentagon fires back against Anthropic, and Google helps identify more iOS malware.
Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.
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| 0:00.0 | This right here is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, March 18th, 2026. |
| 0:08.5 | We tell you what you need to know, give you some important context, and do our darndest to help each other understand. |
| 0:14.4 | Today, the court tells Apple it can kick anyone out of the app store if it feels like it. |
| 0:19.9 | Yeah, don't have to go home, but you can't serve your app here. I'm Tom Merritt. And I'm Sarah Lane. Let's start with what you need to know with that big story. Yes, indeed. So thanks to RW Nash for noting this on the DTNS subreddit. Apple has won the right to deny an app from being in its app store |
| 0:38.2 | without having a show cause. Doesn't have to say why. It just doesn't like your looks. You're out. |
| 0:42.9 | Muzi is the app that brought this court case. Musi is an app launched in 2013 by two Canadian |
| 0:48.6 | teenagers. And it wrapped YouTube music videos to make its own music app. There was no Android version, |
| 0:55.1 | just an iOS version. And Musi claimed that it complied with YouTube's terms of service when it did |
| 1:00.9 | this. It let YouTube ads run. It didn't claim that those were its service. It was just |
| 1:05.8 | wrapping them up like a browser would. However, Apple kicked it off of the App Store in September |
| 1:10.5 | 2024, |
| 1:11.9 | claiming that YouTube objected to the app's use of its intellectual property. |
| 1:16.8 | Apple said, YouTube says it doesn't like what you're doing, so we're kicking you out. |
| 1:20.2 | So Musi sued, claiming that Apple violated its developer program license agreement, |
| 1:26.0 | which says, and Musi quoted this part, |
| 1:28.5 | Apple may stop offering an app download if it reasonably believes, based on a human or systematic review, |
| 1:35.4 | that the application infringes intellectual property rights. |
| 1:38.2 | And Musi said, we don't think Apple did a proper review of this, because if they did, they would have found out that YouTube's claims were BS. |
| 1:45.7 | Muzi says it does not use the YouTube API, so it should not be limited by API terms. |
| 1:52.5 | However, they didn't make their case very well. |
| 1:55.8 | U.S. District Judge U.S. District Judge U.S. District of California found that Apple can remove apps with or without |
| 2:03.3 | cause because the developer program license agreement says that Apple may, and I quote, cease |
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