Apple rejected an iPhone application last year of a student, but said this week the exact same feature in IOS.
These Wi-Fi Sync lets users wirelessly synchronize their iTunes library. The application, developed by Greg Hughes, was quickly rejected from the App Store from Apple. According to The Register, the application is already over one year for sale in the Cydia store, an unofficial hacked app store for iPhones (and denied applications).
But Monday, Apple feature with the exact same name and nearly the same logo (two arrows and a wifi signal).
Compliments of Apple
In response to The Register says Hughes that he was shocked when he suddenly function on the Apple Web site saw. The man studying computer science at the University of Birmingham and Britain submitted its application in May last year. For the official refusal he received compliments by phone from Apple, but it is also the message that there were safety problems with the application.
Irony
It is unclear whether the move by Apple gets a legal tail. To steal the idea is however remarkable, Apple is just like any large technology company, constantly at odds with competitors over patents, and whether or not ideas stolen. Last year called in a press release competitors "to their own, original, TECHNOLOGY to create and not ours to steal."
These Wi-Fi Sync lets users wirelessly synchronize their iTunes library. The application, developed by Greg Hughes, was quickly rejected from the App Store from Apple. According to The Register, the application is already over one year for sale in the Cydia store, an unofficial hacked app store for iPhones (and denied applications).
But Monday, Apple feature with the exact same name and nearly the same logo (two arrows and a wifi signal).
Compliments of Apple
In response to The Register says Hughes that he was shocked when he suddenly function on the Apple Web site saw. The man studying computer science at the University of Birmingham and Britain submitted its application in May last year. For the official refusal he received compliments by phone from Apple, but it is also the message that there were safety problems with the application.
Irony
It is unclear whether the move by Apple gets a legal tail. To steal the idea is however remarkable, Apple is just like any large technology company, constantly at odds with competitors over patents, and whether or not ideas stolen. Last year called in a press release competitors "to their own, original, TECHNOLOGY to create and not ours to steal."
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