A Russian man who filed a lawsuit against Apple after claiming an iPhone app turned him gay has withdrawn his complaint due to privacy fears, his lawyer said Thursday.
"Today we abandoned the legal demands," his attorney Sapizhat Gusnieva said after a first hearing behind closed doors in a Moscow court.
Her client, identified in the lawsuit as DE Razumilov, "no longer wants to continue with the case," she told reporters at the court.
Gusnieva said Razumilov faced pressure online after "haters found his information" and "Apple supporters began to write to him".
He decided not to go forward because he would have needed to attend forthcoming hearings.
In the original complaint, Razumilov claimed to have been turned gay after he ordered Bitcoins through an iPhone app but received a different currency called "GayCoin" with the note: "Don't judge until you try."
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