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Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App (www.bgr.in)
On Monday at its Worldwide Developer's Conference, Apple announced a new app called Breathe as one of the new headline features for watchOS 3, the latest version of its operating system for Apple Watch. The health-centric app reminds users to take a moment and breathe. But was it company's own idea? App developer Ben Erez is accusing Apple of stealing features from his app. What's worse, he adds that the company even used the same name for its app. Erez tells BGR India in a statement: We've had the same concept, same spelling, same functionality in the App store for phone and watch for over a year. We built the app because the existing mindfulness apps were insufficient in that they all focus on intense sessions of 5-20 minutes, once per day. We wanted a mindfulness experience that was felt throughout the day in smaller bits.
Read the fine print apple owns the rights to your code and ideas.
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but if not, mind citing the relevant parts?
like RIAA/MPAA do.
What's strange is that Apple could turn things into a real positive. "We think this app's idea is so great we're adding it's core functionality into our OS." And add that they've either gave its creator $1,000,000 to buy the app, or gave the creator $500,000 as a thank you for spotlighting a need in our community.
I mean, it's chump change for the relatively few things they do it to, the PR is great, it means people would be competing to get noticed by Apple, and they could get that same company to try for a second hit by making them feel good and promoting their next apps aggressively.
Instead, they poison that well
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