iOS developers are organizing a boycott of Apple's in-app purchasing APIs in the hopes that it will goad Apple into responding to the lawsuits against developers using those APIs.



From ArsTechnica:

Last Friday, several developers began receiving letters via FedEx informing them that Lodsys believes their use of in-app purchasing violates a US patent that it bought from Intellectual Ventures (itself mired in controversy over its patent trolling practices). The developers were offered the choice of paying up for a license for past and future use of in-app purchase for upgrades in the next 21 days, or face an expensive and lengthy lawsuit. More developers, including Twitterrific maker Iconfactory, received similar letters this week.

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