A student accused Apple of having copied the Wi-Fi Sync in iOS 5

It is now under the eye of all that Apple, the new features introduced in iOS 5, took inspiration from a lot of applications and tweaks were already on the Cydia Store or already used the Android competition for several years. This choice Apple has made ​​many people turn up their noses, especially those who, as in this case, some solutions had already proposed the same company for some time.

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It ‘s the case of Greg Hughes, a young programmer and college English, about 13 months ago submitted his application called WiFi Sync to Apple, that allowed iDevice to sync with iTunes via Wireless, but Apple decided to reject it, despite its validity, for security reasons (???). But a few days ago, with the advent of Beta 1 of iOS 5 here that one of the innovations introduced by the operating system is precisely that of WiFi sync with the same functionality and the same icon (very similar) to its counterpart on this Cydia at a cost of $ 9.99 for about 13 months.

The boy is said: “Obviously, I’m shocked”, and went on to say: “The sale of that name and that icon for more than a year, and Apple knew”.

What do you think? He has done this young boy to move to take legal action against Apple?

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