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If I were Apple, the clones should not be on the App Store and Apple appears to be removing them. However, I don't really know if the OP's original submission should be approved either. Yes, it uses a different language, but the name is very similar, it's being released around the same time as a trend, it looks like a clone.

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How does it benefit the Swedish consumer to ban a game that uses their native language because it's a clone of a game in English?

By also banning Swedish I.P. apps when somebody makes a foreign clone of them.

And stealing bread is illegal for rich and poor alike!

An interesting question, which the author raises, is why Apple's App Store reviewers should care about a copycat of a third party website or app that does not exist on the App Store. (I can understand them not wanting copycats of existing App Store apps.)

There is no sale of a Swedish Wordle app that would impinge on a sale of an English Wordle app, so this reasoning makes no sense.

Yes. Apple still sucks at curation (as does google, as does Steam), and needs to be more consistent here.

Steam curates? I always thought they let anything in considering what you can see on the later pages of some search.

Steam basically doesn't moderate content unless its illegal as a matter of policy.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/27766192/view/

Exactly this. I am all too happy for a walled garden on my phone, but spend some of your $$$ actually curating it to prove that your walled garden is worthy. What we need is an ecosystem of competing curated app stores.

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