<story><title>Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/04/snappylabs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miles</author><text>&lt;i&gt;would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple has certainly done this before:&lt;p&gt;Apple Literally Stole My Thunder &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;wwdc-round-up&amp;#x2F;253aed27a455&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple rips off student&amp;#x27;s rejected iPhone app - iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/apple_copies_rejected_app/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;apple_copies_rejecte...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macworld.com/article/1035200/konfabulator.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;1035200&amp;#x2F;konfabulator.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple stole Karelia Watson
&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?/topic/2477-apples-stole-karelia-watson/page__st__-13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.macworld.com&amp;#x2F;index.php?&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;2477-apples-stol...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Major&lt;/i&gt; congratulations to him! What an achievement!&lt;p&gt;I wonder though: in these situations if he were to refuse the acquisition would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this, no? Any thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&amp;gt; Apple Literally Stole My Thunder &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;wwdc-round-up&amp;#x2F;253aed27a455&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The article states &amp;quot;I’m not naive enough to claim Apple actually took my idea.&amp;quot; You apparently are, though.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Apple rips off student&amp;#x27;s rejected iPhone app - iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo&lt;p&gt;C&amp;#x27;mon. &amp;quot;Wi-Fi Sync&amp;quot; is hardly a surprising name for such a feature, and making its logo the bog-standard Wifi logo with a bog-standard Sync logo superimposed is hardly a surprising choice either. It was a long-expected and long-awaited feature.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC&lt;p&gt;A controversy about the bog-standard term &amp;quot;widget&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Apple stole Karelia Watson&lt;p&gt;Well, it made its own version and named it cheekily. This seems to be the one mostly valid case in your post.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/04/snappylabs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miles</author><text>&lt;i&gt;would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple has certainly done this before:&lt;p&gt;Apple Literally Stole My Thunder &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;wwdc-round-up&amp;#x2F;253aed27a455&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple rips off student&amp;#x27;s rejected iPhone app - iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/apple_copies_rejected_app/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;apple_copies_rejecte...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macworld.com/article/1035200/konfabulator.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;1035200&amp;#x2F;konfabulator.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple stole Karelia Watson
&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?/topic/2477-apples-stole-karelia-watson/page__st__-13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.macworld.com&amp;#x2F;index.php?&amp;#x2F;topic&amp;#x2F;2477-apples-stol...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>sergiotapia</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Major&lt;/i&gt; congratulations to him! What an achievement!&lt;p&gt;I wonder though: in these situations if he were to refuse the acquisition would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this, no? Any thoughts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>Three of those four are pretty poor examples.&lt;p&gt;It was a different time when the images&amp;#x2F;weather app was rejected by Apple. They were deliberately trying to prevent people creating thin wrappers around websites and calling it an app. And at the start it made a lot of sense.&lt;p&gt;Syncing over WiFi was a feature that users had demanded long before that app had been around and the name&amp;#x2F;logo are not distinctive. They are the most common sense choices you would use.&lt;p&gt;And widgets existed decades before Konfabulator thought to bring them to OSX. They were available as Desk Accessories in the previous versions of Mac OS as well as on Windows&amp;#x2F;Linux.</text></comment>