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Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

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Re: Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

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Post by anotheryou »

GrumpyNl wrote: post #9

I dont get it, he should be extremely happy by what they did. Free advertising, free traffic, its like getting a nr 1 result Google. All i read here is, get a lawyer. He should be celebrating.

Free advertising for what? No attribution, the user won't see it comes from him.

Free traffic for what? He will have to foot the bill for image hosting + generation. No other part of the website can be discovered, let a lone an advertisement or donate button displayed.

The only thing he got was being able to write this blogpost about how apple uses his service.

Re: Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

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Post by rrobukef »

GrumpyNl wrote: post #9

I dont get it, he should be extremely happy by what they did. Free advertising, free traffic, its like getting a nr 1 result Google. All i read here is, get a lawyer. He should be celebrating.

The only reference to his site is hidden behind 3 screens in a URL. All ads are stripped, his brand is stripped. I don't think he must celebrate (though he seems happy).

Re: Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

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Post by OJFord »

GrumpyNl wrote: post #9

I dont get it, he should be extremely happy by what they did. Free advertising, free traffic, its like getting a nr 1 result Google. All i read here is, get a lawyer. He should be celebrating.

TFA ends:

> I'm genuinely thrilled that someone at Apple deemed my chord calculator technology worthy of inclusion in the iOS shortcuts gallery. If anyone from Apple is reading this, please reach out using JGuitar.com's contact form. We can work together to make this experience even better. I can provide high quality SVG images of all chord diagrams, support alternate tunings, instruments and more.

Re: Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

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Post by yitchelle »

GrumpyNl wrote: post #9

I dont get it, he should be extremely happy by what they did. Free advertising, free traffic, its like getting a nr 1 result Google. All i read here is, get a lawyer. He should be celebrating.

Everything needs to be on a level playing field. Imagine if that situation is the other way around. Would Apple be so happy? In fact, it would be good if Apple _is_ happy but I somehow doubt it.

Re: Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

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Post by fredsted »

geoah wrote: post #6
fredley wrote: post #3

It's cool that Apple's using your stuff, it's not cool they're not giving you attribution. I'd add a JGuitar url and copyright notice to all your images, so that this is displayed in Apple's results, and also call a lawyer.

I really don't get why people suggest lawyers and c&d letters as step 1. Yes apple could have done this better and they should -- but why not just have a chat with apple before you go nuclear?

> have a chat with apple

How would you even do that?

Re: Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

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Post by laurent123456 »

fredsted wrote: post #15
geoah wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't get why people suggest lawyers and c&d letters as step 1. Yes apple could have done this better and they should -- but why not just have a chat with apple before you go nuclear?

> have a chat with apple How would you even do that?

Get on the front page of Hacker News.

Re: Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

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Post by aaaaaaaaaab »

The Shortcuts devs seems to have taken the "act now, apologize later" approach.

Another funny solution is how they implemented the "Add to Home screen" functionality: when you select "Add to Home screen" in the Shortcuts app, it opens a data:// URL in Safari, and you have to add it from there :D

Re: Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple

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Post by planb »

Apple did not create this. It originates in the "Workflow Gallery", which Apple rebranded when taking over the service.

I think the question is: Are these downloadable workflows an integral part of the Apple software or are they just merely "Sample Code"? In this case the gallery is curated only by Apple (I think), but if we go down this path, what prevents DCMA takedown requests for GitHub repos that contain sample code which accesses services like this?

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