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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by Causality1 on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:57PM (#20208520)
Camera+ and its VolumeSnap feature, f.lux and the Night Shift feature, Finder for locating your Air Pods, Coolpixel and screen recording. All of these apps offered features that were later integrated into iOS or other Apple offerings. Apple went so far as to send a demand letter to the f.lux devs demanding they stop offering the app for sideloading.
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by berbec on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:54AM (#20209893)
Hell, go back to the early jailbreaking days - Clippy before apple had cut & paste, SwirlyMMS for picture messaging. Apple's been stealing idea for ages.
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by scarface74 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:18AM (#20211340)
Really? Apple “stole” the idea of cut copy and paste? That was a criticism from day one on the phone. The other was not supporting MMS.
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by Causality1 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:28AM (#20214159)
It doesn't seem to have been obvious to Apple, considering it took them two full years after the iPhone's launch to implement the feature.
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by scarface74 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:00PM (#20214542)
Well. You can go back and listen to podcast interviews by some of the early iPhone developers and they will tell you that they were thinking about that from day one.

But to think Apple - the company that had implemented copy and paste on Macs 23 years before then wasn’t thinking about copy and paste until they saw it on jailbroken phones is silly.

It’s equally crazy thinking that Apple didn’t think about implementing a standard phone feature until they saw in the jail broken apps.

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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by berbec on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:51AM (#20214437)
And tried to make a compelling argument that MMS is passé. Everyone who needs MMS should use email instead.
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by scarface74 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:56PM (#20215206)
Jobs also said that no one would want an iPod with video two years before Apple introduced one or an iPod + phone.

He also said that you could make great apps by using the web. Until they turned around and introduced a native SDK nine months later....

Are you now going to say they “stole” the idea of an App Store from the few developers who were putting apps on jailbroken iPhones between July 2007 and April 2008?

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