Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app?

Re:Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app? by ucaetano on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:11AM (#19272357)

This is pretty much standard in the industry, isn't it?

Nobody implements a feature from a competitor and says "hey, we copied this from X".

Look at Android & iOS, with an eternal back-and-forth copying (notifications from Android->iOS, permissions from iOS->Android, etc.)

And coming up with the idea doesn't have to mean inventing the idea, it can simply be "why don't we implement this cool feature that someone else is using?".

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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Re:Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app? by firloop on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:56PM (#19274498)

Surprisingly enough, when Instagram copied Snapchat's stories feature, they credited Snapchat.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/02/silicon-copy/

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Re:Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app? by perennate on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:10PM (#19272902)

But there's a difference between merely copying an idea, and copying it and also publicly claiming you came up with it.

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Re:Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app? by EpicEng on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:10PM (#19274129)

They literally claim to have come up with it on their own. It's the first sentence in the quote.

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Re:Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app? by asveikau on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:33PM (#19274313)

We accept too much PR bullshit origin stories. If you find yourself coming up with a cutesy, exaggerated narrative of how a feature began, don't.

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Re:Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app? by scarejunba on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:40PM (#19274372)

I cannot find it in me to give a shit about glossy origin stories and I doubt most devs care.

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