"The company scavenges through the most popular titles on the social market and harvests them for their own. To use an analogy I’ve drawn on before, the gap between Tiny Tower and Sim Tower might be the difference between James Cameron‘s sci-fi Avatar and the similarly themed Dances with Wolves. However, the space between Tiny Tower and Zynga’s Dream Heights would be the difference between Dances with Wolves and another film set in the 1800s about Native Americans with the exact same plot, lookalike actors and titled “Cavorting with Bears.”" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"You can repeat that analogy for countless Zynga titles, Farmville with Farmtown, Hidden Chronicles with Gardens of Time, Zynga Bingo with Bingo Blitz, Words with Friends with Scrabble. There’s no “inspiration” here, only thievery. Yes, they change the code and draw up new artwork to avoid any legal trouble (after getting in hot water for not doing that when they stole Farmville), but it’s the bare minimum to avoid legal retribution. And if someone did sue them? The powerful company (now with a billion dollar IPO) would crush them with a dogpile of lawyers." - Amit Patel

:-( - Amit Patel

Up 8% today. Investors say, "What a great business strategy." - Stephen Mack

Boo, Zynga, and screw them, anyway, I don't want to play Tiny Tower on Facebook and annoy everybody (or are they making iPhone apps now?). Pretty disgusted with the comments that defend what Zynga did. Oh, I see, it *is* for iPhone. Those jerks. Tiny Tower is my favorite game. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

It worked for Hollywood. Well, not really. - Victor Ganata