The developers of an appliance alleged Vintage Camera say Facebook has unjustly banned users from uploading their photos to the amusing network.
The app, which works on Apple devices, provides assorted furnishings to accomplish pictures attending dated.
French flat Presselite, which developed the app, says it has added than eight actor users worldwide.
Facebook told the developers the accommodation had been fabricated afterward abrogating acknowledgment from annual holders.
After Presselight appealed adjoin the ban, Facebook beatific the aggregation an email saying: "We've arrested out the affairs of your app's restriction, and we begin that your app accustomed able abrogating acknowledgment from users and their friends.
"Unfortunately, we will not be able to restore your app's functionality."
But Presselite co-founder Antoine Morcos said that, according to administering abstracts provided by Facebook itself, there had been about one abrogating address per 1,000 images aggregate via the app, which he believed had been due to "inappropriate use".
"We don't accept how Facebook could block the admission to millions of users of the Vintage Camera appliance who wish to allotment their photos on Facebook, alone because of a few abrogating acknowledgment reports," Mr Morcos wrote in a columnist statement.
"As you all know, Facebook has acquired the Instagram photo-sharing application, and we achievement this accretion is not influencing this affectionate of admission limitation for added photo applications."
"While we accommodate an accessible platform, every appliance on Belvedere is appropriate to accommodated our policies. We yield both automatic and chiral accomplish to ascertain violations and ensure compliance," the close said.
"Pending on the violation, we accord developers an befalling to appear into acquiescence via a admonishing system. In the case of this application, the appliance was not in acquiescence with our belvedere behavior and had accustomed three warnings above-mentioned to our systems demography activity on the application."
The app has a four-star boilerplate appraisement on the Apple store, although some users accept accounting in reviews it does not consistently plan and others accuse it is too agnate to Instagram,
In 2010, Presselite accused London-based developer Q Mapps of anarchic its copyright, afterwards both firms appear an app alleged Paris Metro for Apple devices.
Presselite asked Apple to abolish the Q Mapps app from its abundance but was begin to accept had its brand appliance alone by the US Patent and Brand Office.
At the time, developer Malcolm Barclay declared the allegations as "utterly bottomless and false".
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