Facebook is releasing an application "Paper" named very similar to the popular drawing application, forced to change its name

ByJorge Fernández Flores

Sketching as if drawing on paper, painting app for iPad that can draw diagrams and illustrations "Paper by FiftyThree"Won Apple's iPad Application of the Year 2012 and has been downloaded about 5 million times around the world. A CEO of Paper by FiftyThree is a news application developed and released by Facebook on February 3, 2014Paper"We should not use our brand name," he said.

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The app "Paper by FiftyThree" developed by only three people in the apartment in New York has been familiar to many creators due to its simple and easy-to-use design since its openingOver 100 Million ideasHas been created by the user.


Meanwhile, since Facebook announced a news application "Paper" using a similar application name, CEO · Porori Petschnigg of Paper by FiftyThree published the past history by blog. I found out that Facebook uses the name "Paper", so when I contacted "Being an application name confusing user" before opening the application, although the apology was there, the content was "late contact "It was said that the specific solution was not touched by just it.

Facebook then released the app on schedule on February 3, 2014 on schedule, but Petschnigg says "Simple solution is to make our brand name We should not use it. "

In addition, Mr. Petschnigg personally has many friends on Facebook, and shares more than 500,000 from the Facebook sharing function incorporated in Paper by FiftyThree, and there are various It is thought that there is a deep connection. Petschnigg, who does not want to do very bad exchanges, but it is not clear what Facebook will take in the future.


By the way, Facebook's news application "Paper" features a UI which allows you to see the newspaper as if you read it, or you can see the part where the picture is not displayed when you tilt it.Facebook's best appIt is also called. You can see what kind of interface it is from the following movies.

Introducing Paper - YouTube