Apple Gets Dismissal of Covid App Developer’s Antitrust Lawsuit

A D.C. federal judge threw out an app developer’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc., calling claims that the tech giant unlawfully choked off the firm’s Covid-19 tracker from its app store “faulty.”

The lawsuit, brought by PhantomALERT, fails to define any relevant market in which Apple’s alleged anticompetitive conduct hurt the app developer—the first step in any viable antitrust case, Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said.

In a Jan. 10 decision, McFadden granted Apple’s motion to dismiss the case and denied PhantomALERT’s request to consider an amended complaint filed in ...