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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Thom, in the later part of your article you have:
"That forum posting was made 5 days after Fehr submitted his application, and six days after DP Technologies' application was approved and showed up in the App Store."
Doesn't this also need to be updated due to the change below:
"Update: Fehr pointed out that while the App Store states DishPointer arrived on September 22nd, there were problems with iTunes Connect (more here) and the servers at the time, meaning the application became visible later than the 22nd."
Since without that update being mentioned there too it sounds like Fehr could, in principle, have done the (unlikely) "24 hour copy" you alluded to in the article. As I understand it, this is completely ruled out now?