Angry birds ... 2!
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Which one of you knows how to program for iOS?
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Which one of you knows how to program for iOS?
hahahaGenerally speaking it isn't possible to steal another app's source code, unless you are talking about someone actually hacking into the developers' computers and stealing it.
Nope. All a developer has to do is write their own original code and draw their own original graphics. Copyright covers the expression, not the idea. Just because there is one romance novel doesn't mean you can't write another thousand different ones.
Which one of you knows how to program for iOS?
I'm a marketing guy not a coder!
Wish I was... I always have good app ideas.
The more common source-code-stealing scenario is when a developer leaves a small company and keeps a few things on a portable hard drive. I knew one of my former bosses (the CTO of the company I used to work for) was shady when he asked one of my peers if he "still had that hard drive from that place they used to work". I'm sure stealing source code is far less common than trying to create a fake version of "Angry Birds" called "Angrier Birds" and copying their icons, graphics, and screen shots and having the app really just be an Angry Birds picture gallery for setting your home screen and lock screen wallpaper.
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Objective C leaves all the class and method names completely visible. Apps have been rejected for using some of Apple's reserved names. Certain other portions of the app could potentially be decompiled to the algorithm or otherwise statically analyzed by Apple for certain behaviors. You can often tell when a large chunk of source code was copied when this is done, since most developers use the exact same compiler and optimization settings.
Or the developer was stupid enough to temporarily put their code in a public dropbox, or somesuch. Which is what at least one developer seems to have claimed.
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They all sound like decent and logical guidelines IMO. This is a good step.
They all sound like decent and logical guidelines IMO. This is a good step.
There are some apps that won't work on Bell or Telus here in Canada, only on the Rogers network. Glad to see that those restrictions will be going away.
I'm a marketing guy not a coder!
I have programming experience but not with Objective C! How hard could it be..........
But just imagine the marketing campaigns! hahaha
and what if the developer had permission from the source to copy their code? That wouldn't be illegal but Apple would reject it?
Not if there's a copyright permission notice---which a developer would insist be put into an app, if someone leased it from them.
The operative word in the announcement, "prohibition of arbitrary geographic or carrier restrictions," is "arbitrary."
I'm a marketing guy not a coder!
coding is easy, you can find one for $30/hr on craigslist. it's the art dept that's hard... the world will never have shortage of coder for it's an acquired skill reflecting market demand. art is a gift that few could master. try creating the scene, animation, icon and sound effect u will know u dont even know where to start!
Has anyone noticed the "Cut The Rope HD" walkthrough app on the iPad App Store that looks almost exactly like the game, which was free
Extremely deceptive. I'm pretty shocked that the app developers actually let that go through.
The restrictions are not in the app, but in the fact that BBC TV streams are restricted because of copyright issues, i.e. the BBC may not have the right to show a given programme outside the UK. This shouldn't apply to radio streams (apart from live commentary on major sporting events which are also rights restricted) but not having the app I can't say for sure. But I can certainly get BBC radio abroad using the TuneIn Radio app.
You know all this cr*p that Apple is policing in their stores to make one's experience good and pleasurable? It's going on wholesale in the Android stores. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Well yes it's broadcast rights issues but also, more importantly, the way the BBC is funded: there are no adverts because we in the UK pay our TV licence fee. I think BBC Worldwide will be introducing a paid-for iPlayer app for people in foreign countries, which should satisfy those people who want to watch BBC output. Or they could, you know, move to the UK and pay their licence fee.
If the legal copyright holder complained, then Apple certainly could reject or remove the app. That's exactly what happened to one of the "open source" video decoder apps in the App store.
Actually, in some countries, parody is legally protected. And you could do this if you could create completely original artwork that somehow looked the same (say in a clean room by a blind artist who never saw any other app before). As long as it was obviously a parody not be confused with the original, and didn't involve copying copyrighted artwork or using trademarks in a misleading manner (etc. but IANAL).
Not really patents in this case - more likely it is for copyright violations. Very few 3rd party apps on the app store are likely protected by patents.