Comments on: iPhone app allegedly yanked at competition’s request [iPhone App Store] http://isource.com/2010/01/26/iphone-app-allegedly-yanked-at-competitions-request-iphone-app-store/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:57:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: Sam Steele http://isource.com/2010/01/26/iphone-app-allegedly-yanked-at-competitions-request-iphone-app-store/#comment-19016 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:16:13 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=13869#comment-19016 We are all for free competition in the market—naturally! However, I actually checked into this and let the truth be known that the initial launch of AppVault was 98% identical to AppBox. I’m talking colors, graphics, menus, you name it. I heard that even a bunch of the code was at some point directly copied…. Sure, now they have back-peddled and have added some features and altered some of the designs, but they chose the easy route to begin with. It was unfair, dishonest and misleading to customers–and very likely illegal. Shame on AppVault for trying to cut corners and then crying when the other company simply tries to protect their rights. Think of it this way…What if someone took a popular book, copied the pages verbatim as well as the cover design, changed only a few letters in the title and then re-printed and tried to sell as their own? Even if they later tried to cover this up, added chapters, etc…It was still clearly Intellectual Property theft. I for one wouldn’t buy that book if I knew the full story.

I see a link to AppVault’s side of the story; it would be great to get the other side as well.

Take care!

Sam

PS, Agreed that Apple should notify developers when they pull software from the site.

]]> By: Michal http://isource.com/2010/01/26/iphone-app-allegedly-yanked-at-competitions-request-iphone-app-store/#comment-18963 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:26:38 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=13869#comment-18963 Comparing two binary modules the AppBox Pro and the AppVault Pro, I found there are same 193 exactly same files exist. The AppVault Pro copied it’s data file from the AppBox Pro binary.

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