Filed under: Opinion, ipad, theft | Tags: Apple, Delicious, ipad, theft, Wil Shipley
Over the past several years, several people have accused Apple, Inc. of copying their works or blocking their works and then introducing the Apple version of the app in question. This ugly side of Apple, Inc. has once again raised it’s ugly head in the software realm. It makes everyone think of Apple as the Borg and that all our software will be assimilated. This moniker has long been associated with Bill Gates and Microsoft, however, these days, with the rise of Apple to the forefront of the computing realm, it is now being associated with Steve Jobs and Apple.
Many of us who are long time Mac users already know which app we are referring to when we talk about the blatant copying that Apple did with the iPad introduction. I have been using Delicious for a long time to manage my books and while I dont think it is perfect, it is a nice app. Obviously Apple thought so too when they introduced their book shelf at the latest release conference. Many of the people i was with at the time said, “oh, did Apple buy Delicious?”
According to twitter complaints by Wil Shipley, the author of Delicious, Apple, Inc. has not approached him nor have they offered to buy his software. Instead this is a case of them seeing something they liked and taking it. Of course, with many of the former employees of Delicious working for Apple now, this is no real surprise. However, the real surprise is that they would try to display something like that when almost anyone who has a Mac likely also has Delicious installed on their machines.
Apple really needs to do the right thing here and either confess their sins or buy the Delicious software rights from Wil. I doubt however that this will happen and once again another developer will have wasted his time writing a wonderful program for the Apple platform only to have Apple, Inc. steal it from under their noses. Not Cool Apple!!
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