funny copycat app on phone

Ouriel Ohayon · Top Commenter · Co-Founder at AppsFire · 190 subscribers
I personally don't understand why an app like Angry Chickens can even get approved: they clearly copied the art and game play for angry birds.
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· 5 hours ago

Hillel Fuld · Top Commenter · Beit-Shemesh, Yerushalayim, Israel · 103 subscribers
I actually downloaded it and tried it yesterday. Looks like they tried based on the landing page of the app but the game play is nowhere near the level of Angry Birds. Could not even play for more than five minutes...
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· 5 hours ago
Cyril Marchal · Ubisoft Entertainment
Are you suggesting that Apple should replace the IP regulators (namely judges & courts)? That's nonsense unless you really believe the world is black & white.
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· 5 hours ago
Como Group
Cyril Marchal I agree.. Each entity to their own, if Angry Birds banked a bucket and didn't adequately protect their product - they must have had greedy investors or an unoriginal product to start with. If a small idea becomes big, invest back in it, not into a Mercedes Benz.
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· 5 hours ago

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Eyesark Mwenyewe Munene · Africa Nazarene University
no one is forcing anyone to download the app.so let the innovation (read plagiarism) continue.imagine if the world said since Kalashnikov made one gun, let him keep the patents and own all knowledge on how to smoke powder.no we did not, live and let live.
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· 5 hours ago

Adnaan Badr · Top Commenter · Developer Graphics at Notion Ink
These (cr)apps are the testing grounds for many novice devs.
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· 5 hours ago

Tundey Akinsanya · Top Commenter · George Mason
I would buy that argument if they weren't releasing these crapps in the market place and making real money from them.
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· 3 hours ago
Rashad A Salaam
@Adnaan Badr - I would tend to agree. It's like learning how to cook for the first time: are you going to start learning how to make a burger just through trial-and-error, or will you follow an established recipe to learn how the preparation/cooking process works?

I won't say this is what happens in 100% of cases, but the argument can be made that someone like myself, who can't code/program apps, could be motivated to learn by copying an established game-mechanic formula, get some App Store money generated to fund newer and newer projects, and then at some point when I'm comfortable I can branch out and create something really 'novel' once I've mastered the rules.

Again, I don't think that's ALWAYS true, but there is an argument for formula-based, motivated learning going on.
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· 2 hours ago
Casey Govero · Top Commenter · Graphic Designer at Leinicke Group
I agree, and on top of that, there are a ton of high school kids (and younger) who now are developing apps and putting them out there to go through the learning, and to become the next big "entrepeneur" rock star. Too many news stories about young kids building cool apps. Just cause on kid did it, doesn't mean every kid can.
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· 39 minutes ago

Andrew Van Der Westhuizen · Senior Systems Analyst at Stellenbosch University
How about angry public?
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· 5 hours ago

Phillip Burch · Top Commenter · Android/Windows Phone/HTML5 Developer at American Airlines
Google is a rip off of other search engines should it be around? Android is a rip off of ios should it be around? How many tech blogs are there in the world? Quora is a rip off of yahoo answers. Come on guys get over it... It IS necessary for evolution.

If I've never run a marathon, but I see a runner in red shorts win a marathon. How can I be completely sure it's not the red shorts that made him so successful? The only way I can know for sure is to copy those red shorts and start running.
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· 3 hours ago

Brian Boatright · Lake City, Florida
Article posted 53 minutes ago and I'm assuming the link to the article (http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/224634/top-10-angry-birds-rip-offs/) was still working. It now forwards to PCWorld Game main page. Doing a search for "angry birds rip offs" leads to nothing...
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· 4 hours ago

Rashad A Salaam
GamePro just recently shut down and got enveloped by PC World - sad time for oldschool gamers like myself (-_-)
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· 2 hours ago
Rip Empson · Top Commenter · Utility Man at TechCrunch
Wow, link was live when I posted. Can't find it either. Know the author. Will relink soon, hopefully.
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· 39 minutes ago

Dan Rockwell · Columbus, Ohio
There will always be rip-offs- its like you're trying to regulate noise. We have crap loads of it, from fake twitter bots to rip off apps to crapware to tweets that don't "matter" good luck policing all of that.
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· 5 hours ago

Anoop Madhusudanan · Bangalore, India
Customers are not dumb. If Angry Chickens is better than Angry Birds, it'll come up. Else, it'll go down. But the freedom to choose should be with the customers.
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· 4 hours ago

Brooks Hanes · Top Commenter
Steve Jobs totally disagreed with plagiarism! Then he turned 12.
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· 2 hours ago

Brian Silla · Moon Senior High School
Come on Angry Chickens! They could have at least chosen a name such as mad chickens or something. But they choose angry because they know most people will assume its from the same people who make angry birds. Remember not everyone pays attention to the details such as the developer like this sites readers do. I doubt the game would have been as successful had they chosen a name without angry in it. Personally I hope they get sued and loose. Now had they used a different name I probably would have taken their side. There needs to be something to set it apart that is what changes it from being a copy to being a competing game. Think Tetris and how many Tetris style games came to be.
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· 2 hours ago

Ryan VanMiddlesworth · Works at Sparc
This is a rather amusing rant since Angry Birds is pretty clearly a copycat of Crush the Castle. http://www.atomicboysoftware.com/blog/2010/12/angry-birds-crush-the-castle-and-inspiration/
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· 2 hours ago

Flavius Saracut · Top Commenter · Chief Marketing Officer at Mobiversal
I think the app market is like any other market, there will be successful companies and competitors that will try to rip them off. What seems strange to me is that if I search in the AppStore the term "angry", the first result is NOT Angry Birds free, so maybe this is something Apple could improve.
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· 4 hours ago

Roham Gharegozlou · Top Commenter · Stanford University
Couldn't one solution be trial periods and/or "return periods" for apps so users are not forced to pay for terrible software? That way developers can't profit from a simple download but rather have to drive engagement to get paid.
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· 21 minutes ago

Marcin Brzuzy
Angry birds isn't an original game. There was a flash game which had the exact same functionality as angry birds (which was also out before angry birds existed) that was very popular. All angry birds did was take the idea and make it more marketable.
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· 37 minutes ago

Dan Bowen · Top Commenter
I can't believe I just read this, if it's crap it's crap, even if it is a knock-off. It will work itself out once the lemmings who have to prove how important they through their phones get over their anger for getting sucked into a marketing gimmick.
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· 2 hours ago

Pantano Brown (signed in using Hotmail)
The time has come to skip the crop apps and play new and exciting PC games. I am now playing Magic Cards ( http://pnoy.me/it ) and Find the Ball ( http://pnoy.me/i3 ). Hasta la vista, baby!
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· 4 hours ago

Anil Kumar · Senior Software Engineer at Marlabs Software Pvt Ltd
Well, whoever market well always win. There are bunch of social media services all doing exactly same and people still use many of them!
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· 4 hours ago

Andrew Davies · Amsterdam, Netherlands
And websites! There are so many websites that are basically the same thing as other websites. Someone should put a stop to that.
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· 4 hours ago

Josh Lewis · Top Commenter · Atlanta, Georgia
Maybe if sites stopped promoting awareness of these apps, they'll go away. Same for copycat web services..
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· 3 hours ago

Uyai William Ukpe · Top Commenter
just came here to say angry birds should change name to frustrating birds,, cuz am the one always getting angry.
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· 3 hours ago

Hariharan Balakrishnan · Top Commenter · Bangalore, India
GamePro link is broken. Redirects to PC world.
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· 5 hours ago

Jacek Głodek · Politechnika Warszawska
Like Angry Birds is not a rip-off?
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· 5 hours ago

Wael Al-Sallami · Top Commenter · Lead Rails Developer at Stylitics
It's not, based on the argument that they were the first to think of that metaphor for touch devices, evolution is not ripping-off someone, its using someone else's work to produce your own piece of art, but to copy that work without really adding to it is what resembles the problem IMHO, it seems that what pisse people off is that these AngryBirds ripp-offs are actually bad, had they been better than AngryBirds, they would've been considered the next step in mobile gaming evolution, and AngryBirds would've been considered a thing of the past ... at least this is how I see it :)
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· 4 hours ago