HN likes to go on tears about some big service hurting some little entrepreneur via random, unexplained mistreatment. And yet, most of the time, these stories turn out to involve blatant breaking of terms of use. At this point, whenever I see these stories, I assume that I'm reading a self-serving account by someone who knows exactly what they did wrong, and then I look for any sign that this isn't the case.

It's gotten a little better over time, at least. There was a point, years back, where it seemed like every other day there was a front-page post by some guy running a linkfarm complaining that Google had mysteriously and unjustly weakened their God-given search rankings.

I read threads here and on reddit and found it interesting that on reddit the consensus was that apple handled it quite well and according to the evidence they had and that the dev should have realized why he was on the hook. Plus the taping of the phonecall and subsequent publishing was also not the way to do things.