What is the third-party developer's heart that allows Apple to app-ripple apps?


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Through the interviews with developers who have released apps to the iOS app store “ App Store ”, the US daily newspaper Washington Post has been confronted and sometimes influenced by software developers It summarizes the culture of the technology industry where you are placed.

Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store for its iPhone, iPad and other software updates-The Washington Post
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/05/how-apple-uses-its-app-store-copy-best-ideas/

Danish entrepreneur Ida Ting, who advocated the concept of “ Femtech ”, which uses technology for women's health care, is also the developer of the free physiological record app “ Clue ”. Clue, who can grasp the menstrual cycle smartly with a stylish design, attracted support mainly for women with heavy menstrual periods and women who are trying to conceive , but Mr. Tin has entered September 2019 I face a certain difficulty.


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That is, “ iOS 13 ” released in September 2019 includes a “cycle tracking” function that can track the menstrual cycle in the “ healthcare ” app. The function to grasp the menstrual cycle is not Clue's exclusive patent, but if iPhone and iPad users can use Clue's main feature in `` Healthcare '' that can be used for free, you can make profits with in-app billing There is a possibility that Clue can not be beaten.

Mr. Ting talked about the relationship with Apple, saying, “It's like a love-hate relationship,” and while providing an attractive platform for a long time, this time it was complicated for Apple who showed movement to take customers away I expressed my thoughts.

This isn't the first time for an event like Clue. In 2013, when Apple made the flashlight feature a standard iPhone feature, the flashlight apps on the App Store became obsolete. In a recent example, the “ sidecar ” function that can be used as a sub-display for the iPad, which is planned to be included in the iPad-only OS “ iPadOS ”, is similar to the popular app “ Duet Display ” that was created by a former Apple engineer.

There are more explicit cases. Tom Kattis , developer of voice messaging app ' Voxer ' that allows conversations like a walkie-talkie on a smartphone, told Apple that the app will be released for Apple Watch, but Apple did not allow it for some reason. Kattis then learns why Apple didn't allow a walkie-talkie app for Apple Watch in the news that watchOS 5 was equipped with a walkie-talkie feature. However, in July 2019, it was discovered that there was a risk of eavesdropping , Apple has suspended the transceiver function.


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Regarding this situation, Mr. Kattis commented, `` If the transceiver function works well with Apple Watch, it will be very cool, '' but he said, `` I do not feel sorry for Apple, '' Apple prioritizes its convenience I showed the attitude to understand what was made.

In addition, you can see how you actually use the transceiver function on Apple Watch in the following article.

I tried using the transceiver function that appeared in the latest version `` watchOS 5 '' of the OS for Apple Watch-GIGAZINE



Among app developers abroad, there is even the word “Getting Sherlocked”, which refers to being able to get ideas from Apple. This is an industry term that was born when ' Sherlock ', a search software developed by Apple, copied almost the entire functionality of the search software ' Watson ' for Macintosh.

In fact, there are not a few third-party app developers that allow Apple to steal ideas, like Tin and Katis. Steve Jobs once quoted Picasso's words: “A good artist imitates, a great artist steals”, “So we have also stolen great ideas without hesitation. 'As we alluded to,' the technology industry has been working hard, sometimes stealing ideas.

On the other hand, there are moves that are openly opposed to this situation. In March 2019, the music streaming service Spotify announced a statement that `` Apple is improperly regulating competitors' services against Apple Music '' and decided to take a lawsuit against Apple. I revealed that.

You can understand the dispute between Spotify and Apple by reading the following article.

Spotify sued Apple for antitrust violation, Apple strongly criticized that Spotify is destroying the music industry-GIGAZINE



Russian computer security company Kaspersky has also filed a lawsuit against Apple, saying 'Apple is abusing its position as an App Store platform owner.'

Kaspersky accuses Apple of violating antitrust laws as `` Apple has deleted other companies' apps from the App Store for its own applications' '-GIGAZINE



In a number of books discussing antitrust laws, professor Maurice Stock of Law at Tennessee said, “Technology platforms like Apple have quickly identified potential competitors and grabbed threat technologies. It ’s possible to make the opponents disadvantageous, ”he points out, asymmetry in the power relationship between the platform and third-party developers.

Former Apple engineer and aforementioned Duet Display developer Raful Dewan said, “The only way to remain unchanged in the technology industry is to keep changing,” and only continuous progress is He expressed his belief that he should survive in the technology industry.

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