Ask HN: Apple copied my App Name, what do I do now?

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

imothee wrote: post #4

wmf wrote: post #3

I guess you're talking about Find My Friends. Apple either doesn't check or just doesn't care; see "iTV", "iPhone", and "IOS". At this point you cannot go to market with the existing name. If you think your app is worth less than the cost of changing the name (really?) then admit to yourself that you weren't serious anyway and abandon it.

It's not that the app is worth less than the cost of changing the name. Though right now it seems a bit worthless to try and compete with Apple. It's the fact that I thought I had made my intentions very clear of my intent to use the brand with Apple through iTunesConnect. Apart from releasing it I did everything else. Just feels like Apple didn't even care to look and it makes me question developing for their platfo…

Post by chc » Thu, Oct 13, 2011, 9:45 PM UTC

imothee wrote: post #4

wmf wrote: post #3

I guess you're talking about Find My Friends. Apple either doesn't check or just doesn't care; see "iTV", "iPhone", and "IOS". At this point you cannot go to market with the existing name. If you think your app is worth less than the cost of changing the name (really?) then admit to yourself that you weren't serious anyway and abandon it.

It's not that the app is worth less than the cost of changing the name. Though right now it seems a bit worthless to try and compete with Apple. It's the fact that I thought I had made my intentions very clear of my intent to use the brand with Apple through iTunesConnect. Apart from releasing it I did everything else. Just feels like Apple didn't even care to look and it makes me question developing for their platfo…