Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 8th Nov 2009 16:11 UTC
We're all familiar with the fact that Apple has trouble managing its App Store. While it is overflowing with applications, Apple governs it willy-nilly, and the web is rife with stories from developers who had their application rejected for no apparent reason. There's now a new issue we can add to the list. Are you an iPhone developer? Do you want a similar, competing application out of the App Store? All you need to do is send an infringement claim to Apple, and they'll happily threaten to remove the competing application without a second thought. Update: And here's a similar case, about Stoneloops! vs. Luxor.
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The StoneLoops vs Mumbojumbo/Luxor argument seems a little more worrisome. If I believe the guy behind StoneLoops, Apple allowed Mumbojumbo to decide if StoneLoops could be allowed to sell their product (and the answer was, unsurprisingly, no).
I mean, yay Capitalism and all (Mumbojumbo found a way to make money and they took it), but that's not so much market competition as having a more convincing-sounding argument in front of a judge who doesn't look at any evidence. Oh, and the judge allows the prosecutor to decide the case.
I can't see this ending well, but at the moment it just doesn't matter: Apple can do no wrong, and everyone wants an iPhone. I think the comments previously made about iPhone developers being like prostitutes applies.
Edited 2009-11-08 19:46 UTC