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One can only wonder how many Apps would have to be purged in order to live up to this promise. Now imagine how many non-game apps would be under the same campai
by hack_edu 15y ago
One can only wonder how many Apps would have to be purged in order to live up to this promise. Now imagine how many non-game apps would be under the same campaign; their entire App industry would collapse.
- cube13 15y agoI think that it really only applies in the games space. The basic features of most utility apps is pretty easily defined by the problem they're attempting to solve. The basic functionality of all Twitter apps, for example, are pretty much only what the Twitter API allows. They can do more than that(historical caching, thread aggregation, etc), but the basic functionality is to read your stream and post tweets.
- gurkendoktor 15y agoExcept that the App industry is not a direct profit maker for Apple at all. It is an ecosystem that boosts hardware sales. What matters is not the number of apps or the cash handed out to developers, it is end-user happiness. That's what leads to such seemingly incoherent decisions. Anecdotally, the apps with good ratings that I saw in the App Store charts have never been rip-offs.
- throwaway64 15y agoDefine "ripoff", angry birds is a rehash of a concept that has been very popular in flash games since pre-2000.
- gurkendoktor 15y agoWas the Flash game called "Disgruntled Ducks" and featured blue boars as the enemies? If yes, then it would be comparable to the OP. As far as I can see this is not about protecting gameplay concepts, rather than brands.