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by coldtea 1967 days ago
>I seriously doubt this has ever happened in the history of the App Store.

Don't know about the App Store, but people have copied in-progress websites and did copy-cat products (sometimes complete with the original artwork/styles).

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In general, scammers want to know that something is popular, before they decide to clone it?

I wonder if they had bought website visit statistics via e.g. Alexa? And in the app store, they'll see how many downloads? ratings? already existing apps have, and can decide, based on that?

Meaning, "who was first" can work fine, most of the time?

> "theirs could be available in another store, and you copied theirs from there"

And one would need to check different app stores, e.g. who was first in any of Google Play and Apple's App Store?