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26 Comments
- enicholas, on 02/19/2009, -1/+27I'm an App Store developer, and I'm THRILLED to let Apple take 30% of the proceeds. They handle the ordering, distribution, processing, updates, and quite a bit of advertising. It would cost me more than 30% of the cost of my app to handle all of that myself, especially considering the fact that then nobody would buy it.
- mike3k, on 02/19/2009, -2/+27It also looks a lot like Delicious Library.
- Typhoon2009, on 02/19/2009, -0/+17He misspelled "Pride" in "Pride and Prejudice."
- simonph, on 02/19/2009, -1/+6David Lanham, who did the original graphics, is an awesome artist! http://dlanham.com/
- aristotle0dude, on 02/19/2009, -0/+4Just send a DCMA takedown notice. Apple will take down the clone apps quickly. If George Lucas can do it, so can these guys.
- enesgee, on 04/13/2009, -0/+2What do you think about copying of all the fart apps
http://www.iappphone.com/tag/fart/ - NSResponder, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2They've also both copied the bookshelf presentation from Delicious Library. Wil Shipley should probably send them a C&D letter.
-jcr - MightyUpsetter, on 02/20/2009, -0/+2Someone has done a shameful rip off of Trism, one of the greatest puzzle games on the iphone - have a look at Hex Spin.
What a total jerk. - piratebr0adcast, on 02/23/2009, -0/+2Check out my App. I built it and it does ok! http://tinyurl.com/MedicalTerminology link launches itunes BTW
- Philbert, on 02/19/2009, -2/+3Lawsuit time?
- inactive, on 02/21/2009, -0/+1Wrong, the day apple set up guidelines and started actively filtering out apps for arbitrary reason, they opened themselves up to the REQUIREMENT that they filter out apps such as this. If it was an open market then I would completely agree with you. But it's not, Apple shouldn't have approved the app at all
- MikeSD34, on 02/20/2009, -0/+1The problem is that the rip off uses their name, and tries to present itself as developed by the people that made the original. This means that if the app IS crap, then it will degrade the reputation and likely the sales of the original.
Now as far as Apple taking care of it is concerned, for one we don't know if it was apple. Also, it's likely that there's something in either the terms of service for the app store, or something agreed upon when registering for it, or submitting applications to it, that prohibits this kind of behavior. - MikeSD34, on 02/20/2009, -0/+1The ability to send a take down notice is included as part of the DMCA which encompasses more than just prohibiting the bypass of DRM and similar schemes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infr ... - rssmith, on 02/19/2009, -2/+2If I was going to rip off Classics, I certainly wouldn't use it to sell Jane Austen books. At least, not if I was hoping to make money.
- innovaciones, on 02/20/2009, -2/+2Why nobody gives some credit to the "Installer" creator??? this was the first "App Store", now is almost dead and i´m happy with Cydia but cmon! Installer was the first!
- vinko, on 02/20/2009, -2/+2This is reprimand able and Apple being the guardian of the App Store should do something to prevent and eradicate these sort of intellectual violations.
- lowbudgetfun, on 02/19/2009, -6/+6Shameful. Is someone able to report this to Apple? There must be a copyright violation in this somehow.
- pyrates, on 02/20/2009, -2/+2Wrong area of the law. DMCA specifically has to do with a digital rights system being circumvented. The images an an app on the app store are not encrypted in anyway.
Send a copyright notice instead. That's the proper one to send. - mmmoss, on 02/19/2009, -6/+6They say imitation is the best form of flattery. But this is UGLY so not even good imitation.
- BrendanSheehan, on 02/20/2009, -2/+2This could also be a clever marketing scheme by Classics?
- inactive, on 02/19/2009, -8/+7I will buy the one for Android.
- leamanc, on 02/19/2009, -9/+7Sorry, we don't do copyrights here at Digg. ***** THE RIAA! Long live The Pirate Bay and App Store rip-off artists!
- qpid, on 02/19/2009, -4/+2The one on the right is photoshopped, you can tell by the pixels.
- gamelord12, on 02/19/2009, -4/+1I don't think those apps should be filtered out. With proper reviews, the good applications should float to the top, leaving the crap in the dust. Sure that person pretty much blatantly ripped off the Classics application, but let the Classics developers take legal action; there's no doubt in my mind they'd succeed. I don't think it's up to Apple to take care of that sort of stuff. Having the crappy applications lets them brag about their numbers while users determine what they actually want through reviews and purchases.
- aenilius, on 02/19/2009, -9/+3is this a bleeding vagina macfags only post? i don't see who else could possibly care.
- inactive, on 02/19/2009, -13/+4Its ok no matter which one you buy the developer still get ripped off by apple.
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