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I see a section with short vertical videos on Youtube that strongly resembles a certain Chinese mobile app. Could it be that those Chinese developers, not respe

I see a section with short vertical videos on Youtube that strongly resembles a certain Chinese mobile app. Could it be that those Chinese developers, not respecting intellectual property, are now working for Youtube? Or maybe not respecting intellectual property when it is profitable is just a worldwide tradition?

TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
Copying an idea is one thing. Outright stealing source code is on different level. i.e. See how Huawei got big - By copying hardware of Cisco routers and loading there Cisco firmware.
- Cullinet 3y ago
  You can always check out the Huawei Github, here's some very interesting LTE modem firmware sources : https://github.com/Huawei-LTE-routers-mods/README https://github.com/Huawei-LTE-routers-mods/README
circuit10 3y ago
I remember seeing that the main activity or whatever it was of the YouTube app was called something like “YoutubeTiktokApplication” That wasn’t the exact name, I’ll try to find it, but it definitely had TikTok in the name I could also be wrong here because I was trying to patch it with ReVanced or something at the time so it could be related to the patcher I’m not saying that means they’re copying TikTok’s source code but it’s just an odd thing I wanted to share
- circuit10 3y ago
  Someone downvoted me, it does sound odd but I think it was true, here’s someone else seeing the same thing: https://twitter.com/imShreyasPatil/status/1320399162651803648 https://twitter.com/imShreyasPatil/status/132039916265180364... However someone said this: “Tiktok is an internal component in Google used by many of the apps, it was written and named like that before the social network existed and is absolutely unrelated.”
callalex 3y ago
You’re right, it reminds me of Silicon Valley’s Vine. Or is that not what you meant?
- codedokode 3y ago
  I remember seeing this name but never heard of anyone using it. So I don't think that Youtube would copy an unpopular app.
  - callalex 3y ago
    YouTube Shorts is a clone of Musical.ly (now rebranded as TikTok) which was a clone of Vine.

TheLoafOfBread 3y ago

Copying an idea is one thing. Outright stealing source code is on different level. i.e. See how Huawei got big - By copying hardware of Cisco routers and loading there Cisco firmware.

Cullinet 3y ago
You can always check out the Huawei Github, here's some very interesting LTE modem firmware sources : https://github.com/Huawei-LTE-routers-mods/README https://github.com/Huawei-LTE-routers-mods/README

circuit10 3y ago

I remember seeing that the main activity or whatever it was of the YouTube app was called something like “YoutubeTiktokApplication” That wasn’t the exact name, I’ll try to find it, but it definitely had TikTok in the name I could also be wrong here because I was trying to patch it with ReVanced or something at the time so it could be related to the patcher I’m not saying that means they’re copying TikTok’s source code but it’s just an odd thing I wanted to share

circuit10 3y ago
Someone downvoted me, it does sound odd but I think it was true, here’s someone else seeing the same thing: https://twitter.com/imShreyasPatil/status/1320399162651803648 https://twitter.com/imShreyasPatil/status/132039916265180364... However someone said this: “Tiktok is an internal component in Google used by many of the apps, it was written and named like that before the social network existed and is absolutely unrelated.”

callalex 3y ago

You’re right, it reminds me of Silicon Valley’s Vine. Or is that not what you meant?

codedokode 3y ago
I remember seeing this name but never heard of anyone using it. So I don't think that Youtube would copy an unpopular app.
- callalex 3y ago
  YouTube Shorts is a clone of Musical.ly (now rebranded as TikTok) which was a clone of Vine.