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If you do that, you'll wipe out hundreds if not thousands of "Candy Crush" and "Bejeweled" clones.
by chiph 11y ago
If you do that, you'll wipe out hundreds if not thousands of "Candy Crush" and "Bejeweled" clones.
- bsharitt 11y agoThis plan keeps getting better.
- toyg 11y agoAnd that would be bad because...?
- Klathmon 11y agoJust because you don't like an app doesn't mean it doesn't or can't provide value and deserves to be removed.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoWhat if an app provides negative value? Right now every successful app has a few dozen knockoffs that are deliberately confusingly similar, and functionally identical or inferior; it makes discovery considerably more difficult, especially if you're looking for something that isn't a hit or a ripoff of a hit.
- Klathmon 11y agoI'm pretty sure nobody is advocating for warez or exact copy apps, but you need to be careful drawing that line. Just because to you it's "just another bejeweled clone" doesn't make it so. A layperson would probably think that HN is "just another reddit", and that's not any more valid. Luckily (or unluckily depending on which side you are on) we already have laws that define this for us. Trademark, copyright, and patents. For better or for worse, that's legally what we have to work with.
- chiph 11y agoNot bad, as such. I'm all for someone writing an app that adds value/entertainment and makes them some money. But at the same time.. how many do we really need?
- piker 11y agoAs many as a fully-informed, rational-acting market will bear.
- emodendroket 11y agoSo, something other than the Google Play store, you mean?
- st3v3r 11y agoSo we'll never know, because such a thing has never existed.
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