Yesterday we saw how Apple launched a Official app called invitations. This tool, not yet incorporated into iOS, but we can download manually, allows us to invite people to an event, be it a party, a meeting, etc.
However, although it is very beautiful and functional, there is something that the Partifulous developersa quite popular app in the App Store, and that is that the similarity between his and Apple's is too much, and accuse Tim Cook company.
Apple invitations is a copy
The truth is that, personally, I did not know this app, however, when I went to download it, I have realized that indeed, The application is very similar to the invitation that Apple would have launched, both in design and in functions, since it has all those that the apple company would have incorporated, from inviting people to an event (the basis of it), until making collaborative lists of songs for her, etc.
And it is nothing new, since there has already been a case of this, known as «Sherlocking«. It occurs when Apple launches an application or function that does the same as a third -party app. The term comes from “Sherlock”, a search tool in OS X that Apple improved by adding functions that originally had an app called Watson. Watson's creators accused Apple of copying their idea without compensating them, and since then, “sherlocking” is used to describe when Apple leaves obsolete applications of others by integrating their functions into the system.
That is why it does not surprise us at all that Apple has copied from partifulusing its means to improve it, although really, we would not know even if it is better, since the invitation needs an ICloud subscription and possess an iPhone, while the original does it by means of a link for free, you have or not An Apple product.
Make your own ideas. We know you have them, so make yours come to life. It is not limited to copying the last popular application of the App Store, or making some minor changes in the name or user interface of another application and making it go through it. In addition to risking a claim for infringement of intellectual property, it makes the App Store more difficult to navigate and is simply not fair for their fellow developers.
This is what the creators of Partiful communicated, quite outraged with Applesince, we all know, that regardless of which one is better, there is no way to compete against a giant like that, and only the promotion that the company can give, incorporating it even natively in iOS, it makes partiful to end Forever almost before starting. Hopefully at least Apple will offer them something, because the copy is quite evident. And you, what do you think of all this? Do you think about a legal tactic?
