[Causality1]

Bingo. There are several examples from years back where Apple copied an app and then removed it from the app store, but this isn't one of those times.

[scarface74]

So you care to give such an example?

[Causality1]

Camera+ and its VolumeSnap feature, f.lux and the Night Shift feature, Finder for locating your Air Pods, Coolpixel and screen recording. All of these apps offered features that were later integrated into iOS or other Apple offerings. Apple went so far as to send a demand letter to the f.lux devs demanding they stop offering the app for sideloading.

[berbec]

Hell, go back to the early jailbreaking days - Clippy before apple had cut & paste, SwirlyMMS for picture messaging. Apple's been stealing idea for ages.

[scarface74]

Really? Apple “stole” the idea of cut copy and paste? That was a criticism from day one on the phone. The other was not supporting MMS.

[Causality1]

It doesn't seem to have been obvious to Apple, considering it took them two full years after the iPhone's launch to implement the feature.

[scarface74]

Well. You can go back and listen to podcast interviews by some of the early iPhone developers and they will tell you that they were thinking about that from day one.

But to think Apple - the company that had implemented copy and paste on Macs 23 years before then wasn’t thinking about copy and paste until they saw it on jailbroken phones is silly.

It’s equally crazy thinking that Apple didn’t think about implementing a standard phone feature until they saw in the jail broken apps.

[berbec]

And tried to make a compelling argument that MMS is passé. Everyone who needs MMS should use email instead.