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That's the thing, though -- nearly every app they release is fairly generic. Not bad in a vacuum, but the apps got a ton of competitors and they didn't differen

That's the thing, though -- nearly every app they release is fairly generic. Not bad in a vacuum, but the apps got a ton of competitors and they didn't differentiate themselves. It also doesn't help that the exact functionality of their most famous app (EasyTether) has been baked into the OS since ICS (and similar functionality has been in since Froyo), and their second most famous app (WordFeud) relies somewhat on network effects and has been mostly supplanted by Words With Friends.

ZoFreX 14y ago
/Their/ most famous app?! This is "their" app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.etpc#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLm1zdHJlYW0uZXRwYyJd https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.et... This is the /actual/ Easy Tether app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.easytether_polyclef&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tc3RyZWFtLmVhc3l0ZXRoZXJfcG9seWNsZWYiXQ. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.ea.... So not only is this developer a hack, they're also a thief.
- coredumped 14y ago
  good catch
  - ZoFreX 14y ago
    See Barrkel's correction to my post
- barrkel 14y ago
  I wouldn't leap to the thief accusation. The "actual" Easy Tether app you link to says "Mobile Stream" is the publisher in the app store, but the app id is com.mstream.easytether_polyclef. If Polyclef was a thief, why would Mobile Stream use the thief's name in the id? I think it's the way it is because EasyTether was developed by someone living in Russia (look at the whois for mobile-stream.com), but they had no way of charging for it on the app store in the early days - there used to be a very restricted set of countries. So they got Polyclef to publish it (whois polyclefsoftware.com points to Louisiana). And that's what the description on the first link says - "EasyTether is developed by Mobile Stream and published by Polyclef Software".
  - ZoFreX 14y ago
    Whoops, thanks for the correction!

ZoFreX 14y ago

/Their/ most famous app?! This is "their" app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.etpc#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLm1zdHJlYW0uZXRwYyJd https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.et... This is the /actual/ Easy Tether app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.easytether_polyclef&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tc3RyZWFtLmVhc3l0ZXRoZXJfcG9seWNsZWYiXQ. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mstream.ea.... So not only is this developer a hack, they're also a thief.

coredumped 14y ago
good catch
- ZoFreX 14y ago
  See Barrkel's correction to my post
barrkel 14y ago
I wouldn't leap to the thief accusation. The "actual" Easy Tether app you link to says "Mobile Stream" is the publisher in the app store, but the app id is com.mstream.easytether_polyclef. If Polyclef was a thief, why would Mobile Stream use the thief's name in the id? I think it's the way it is because EasyTether was developed by someone living in Russia (look at the whois for mobile-stream.com), but they had no way of charging for it on the app store in the early days - there used to be a very restricted set of countries. So they got Polyclef to publish it (whois polyclefsoftware.com points to Louisiana). And that's what the description on the first link says - "EasyTether is developed by Mobile Stream and published by Polyclef Software".
- ZoFreX 14y ago
  Whoops, thanks for the correction!