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Follow on Google News | Review - Did Apple Steal a College Kid's Wi-Fi Sync App?Did Apple Steal a College Kid's Wi-Fi Sync App?Wireless syncing between both the iPhone and iPad and the program iTunes (on PCs) is finally rolling out to iDevices as part of the new iOS 5.
By: cheaplaptopbattery Sure, wireless syncing isn't a unique idea, nor is it new (it's just new to Apple devices)--so it's not necessarily true that Apple stole some poor student's idea. But that doesn't mean they didn't rip off the name and logo of said student's application. In May 2010, University of Birmingham student Greg Hughes submitted his app "Wi-Fi Sync" to Apple's App Store http://www.batterylaptoppower.com/ Hughes told The Register that Rea said the iPhone engineering team had taken a look at the app and was "impressed," Compare for Yourself Did Apple Steal a College Kid's Wi-Fi Sync App?Source: iSource.com Hughes accepted the rejection and took his app to the unofficial, jailbroken app store--Cydia. There his app became a best seller, and has sold more than 50,000 copies in the past 13 months, at $10 apiece. Anyway, imagine Hughes' surprise when he saw Apple's WWDC announcement about its new wireless syncing feature. Not only is the name and functionality the same (and, to be fair, "Wi-Fi Sync" isn't exactly clever), but the logo looks almost exactly the same. It appears to have been reworked ever-so-slightly to match Apple's latest slew of feature icons, but that's it. ************************************************************ http://www.batterylaptoppower.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.batterylaptoppower.com/ Yeah, it's not reasonable to expect Apple to ignore wireless syncing altogether, but that icon is pretty damning. What do you think--do you believe Hughes, or Apple? # # # www.batterylaptoppower.com - Wholesaler & distributor of laptop batteries replacement for Compaq, HP, Dell, Acer, Sony. Our notebook batteries are made from high quality battery cells, which offer the quality and capacity as their (Original Equipment Manufacturer) End
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