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Google does exactly the same. My apps have been cloned or copied many times, with my exact icon or screenshots. It's cute that they have a report button that doesn't work. You can send a billion reports - they not ones have taken the app down.
Oh my god, they don't even bother implementing the app any more... It reminds me of my first App Store experience. I made an app that was somewhat successful (about 2000€ a month, enough to pay for a students living expenses). Within short time, a chinese speaking developer cloned it. They copied the icon (slighlty different color), they copied the UI, they even copied all the text in the dialog boxes. They released…
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Then enforce your copyright. No one will do it for you.
YouTube automatically enforces copyright on behalf of the recording industry. Why shouldn’t Apple do it on behalf of their app developers?
Apple is not in the same position: the businesses who would sue them to try to force them to enforce their copyright are much much smaller than it (and are additionally very reliant on Apple).
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Vienna for example. Although it is possible to survive with around 700-900€ per month, eat, live and study. But if you also want to go out, go to restaurants/bars regularly and live in a nice place (not a shared dorm room), 1500-2000€ are way better.
I think we have two very distinct student lives in mind: The one I know most students have, is living very frugally, cooking at home, counting every penny to not go into more debt, studying hard to get a head start in life and partying hard on a budget, mostly house parties with booze bought from the supermarket with the occasional club or restaurant outing being a treat. The other one is the Instagram lifestyle stud…
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Vienna for example. Although it is possible to survive with around 700-900€ per month, eat, live and study. But if you also want to go out, go to restaurants/bars regularly and live in a nice place (not a shared dorm room), 1500-2000€ are way better.
I think we have two very distinct student lives in mind: The one I know most students have, is living very frugally, cooking at home, counting every penny to not go into more debt, studying hard to get a head start in life and partying hard on a budget, mostly house parties with booze bought from the supermarket with the occasional club or restaurant outing being a treat. The other one is the Instagram lifestyle stud…
I never understood the App Store rating figures. Here's the scam app: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/keywatch-watch-keyboard/id1499... Apparently the paid for 5 stars comments have been deleted, all that's left are comments in the 1 star range but the app is still rated 4.1/5. It's not the first time I see this discrepancy and makes it very hard for a user to understand who to believe: the 1 star comments or the very…
The "more by this developer" app list is also telling. A bunch of utilities, with all of them having in-app purchases, most having weekly subscriptions too. I don't understand how any of these apps passed the review. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/keywatch-watch-keyboard/id1499...
Oh my god, they don't even bother implementing the app any more... It reminds me of my first App Store experience. I made an app that was somewhat successful (about 2000€ a month, enough to pay for a students living expenses). Within short time, a chinese speaking developer cloned it. They copied the icon (slighlty different color), they copied the UI, they even copied all the text in the dialog boxes. They released…
Would you support antitrust action against Apple forcing them to open up the app store? Would you be willing to speak about your experience and the total apathy you received from Apple?
At least Apple can be pressured to get better on this.
Once you have multiple app stores, the game is over forever in terms of protecting apps from duplication.
" But I like Apple's walled garden because they verify and quality check everything on there "
Does anybody know of a firefox addon or monkeyscript to filter articles on Hackernews? At this point I just want to hide any article with "M1" or "Apple" in it.
" But I like Apple's walled garden because they verify and quality check everything on there "
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It's just bike-shedding. Enforcing names or the fact that you mention subscribing to the app on a website is easy whereas testing every app that comes in is hard.
For 30% of all revenues, why should anyone give a flying damn about poor Apple having to do its homework?
There is very little IP protection for software in general.
If the app conforms to the rules, Apple may not be able to determine that it’s a violation of any rule.
Then what?