[antirez]

I never understand arguments like this. There as Orkut before Facebook, Loopt before Latitude, Yahoo before Google, and Digg before Reddit.

You can copy stuff and make them better, and this better can be even just simpler, or with better community, or other odd declinations of "better" that are enough to win in the market.

EDIT: and in case there is already something in the marke that is yet not famous, you can almost ignore it at all unless this is an hint about the fact that the app may be not useful (more likely it is bad execution, bad marketing, ...)

[skadamat]

Yeah but this time, there's literally no difference in the products lol. Plus, Glympse has deep integration into many cars, the UPS uses them, etc. AND its super popular amongst consumers. Sure you may be able to get some consumers to switch to Moby for whatever reason, but money only really comes in this case from businesses

[shuw]

I'm not arguing that Moby should not try to do better.

However, there should some acknowledgement that an almost identical product has existed for years and how this differs (better UX?, more features, etc).

[skadamat]

Also, Glympse has some important relevant patents they should be careful not to tip-toe about

[priley]

Glympse was founded by dinosaurs.. retired Microsoft guys. I'd put my money on three talented teens with a better UX in their first version every day of the week. Keep on shipping, Moby team!