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AJ Batac (/-_-)
Apple accused of 'ripping off' student's iPhone app. The company allegedly released an app with the same functions, a near-identical logo and the same name, a year after telling the developer that his app was rejected for "security concerns" and for doing things outside the official software development kit's limits. - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...
June 9, 2011
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Greg Hughes, a third year computer science student at the University of Birmingham, developed an application called "Wi-Fi Sync" and offered it to Apple's App Store in May 2010. The app was designed to sync iTunes libraries with iPhones over a wireless wireless network rather than via a USB connector. After the App Store rejected his submission Mr Hughes put his app up for sale on the Cydia store, a rival to the App Store which sells software for "jailbroken" iPhones - devices which have had the usage limitations imposed by Apple removed. The app, priced at $9.99 (£6.07), has become one of Cydia's top products, selling more than 50,000 copies since its release. But this Monday, Apple unveiled its new iPhone operating system, iOS 5, with an inbuilt feature also called Wi-Fi Sync, which carries out the same wireless syncing function. It also has a very similar logo [see image above].
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
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well so whos going to go after apple now ?
- Peter Dawson