Apple has removed the Fakespot app - a famous application to detect fake product reviews - removed from its application store after Amazon complained that the application provided misleading information and could cause potential security risks.
The Vexpot app works by analyzing the credibility of the Rivews reviews and gives it a degree of "A" (A) to "F" (F), then provides shoppers with recommendations on products that are highly satisfied with customer satisfaction.
Amazon said that it had informed Apple about Besput to investigate it after its fears increased that a copy of its designed from the application confused consumers by viewing the Amazon website in the application with the Code of Vexpot.
Amazon said it does not allow applications to do so.A spokesman for Amazon claimed that the application "provides customers with misleading information about the sellers and their products, harms our sellers' work, and creates potential security risks.".
By Friday noon - and after a review from Apple - the application is no longer available on the App Store (App Store).
The problem of false user reviews
The reviews of misleading or false users proved that it is a major problem for retail traders online, including Amazon, and the company recently intensified its efforts to discover and direct fake reviews, which made the field of external applications that do this work grow, and with the continued spread of fake reviews on the Internet, applications and locations of the party appearedThe third to help the shoppers to discover it, such as Vexpot, Riviewmeta, and Reconbob (Reconbob).
Amazon complains to Apple
Apple said in a statement that the Amazon opened on June 8, a dispute with the application of Vetepot on intellectual property rights.
Apple indicated that it had provided Beetput with the steps to keep its application in the store, and gave it a "time" to solve the problem.
Apple spokesman did not immediately respond to the questions about the nature of Viksput's violations for the applications of the application store.
But Amazon has directed the CNBC channel to two types of Apple App Store's instructions, perhaps violating them.View them, and the other states that applications should not include wrong information and features.
Amazon also claims that the Vikspot coding technology makes it possible to apply to collect and track information from customers.
Last January, the company made similar allegations against PayPal, which is an extension of the browser that allows users to find vouchers during online shopping, warning users that it may be a "security risk".
"They did not show any evidence."
The Founder and CEO of Kuwaiti Kepotut, Saud Khalifa, said in an interview with the "CNBC" channel that he opposed Amazon's claim that the application represents security risks, adding that even if Bespot collects some user data, he does not sell it to a third party.
Khalifa pointed out that many applications use the same programming technology, which is called "Wrapping", to include a web browser display, such as voucher saving, and that many applications and websites also collect the user information and follow, including Amazon.
"We are not stealing user information, and we did not do that before," Khalifa said, adding that "they did not show any evidence for that, and Apple acted on this basis without any evidence.".
He added that he is upset because Apple did not make a suitable warning to Vixpot that the application will be removed from the application store, to give the opportunity to correct problems in it.
"Imagine to go to a tenant and say that you have to take all your purposes, you have to leave now, this is what I feel now, to be honest with you completely.".
It is noteworthy that the application is still available on the Google Play Store for Android devices (Android).