Apple's new wireless syncing app may have come from a Cydia developer
As part of iOS 5, Apple is launching the Wi-Fi Sync app, which will enable users to sync their iTunes libraries with their device using a shared Wi-Fi network. However, the announcement of this new app has sparked clams that Apple has copied an old Cydia app, also called Wi-Fi Sync.
In May 2010, University of Birmingham student Greg Hughes submitted his app, Wi-Fi Sync, to Apple's App Store. The app was rejected because of "unspecified security concerns".
Hughes told The Register that Steve Rea, an iPhone developer relations representative, said the iPhone engineering team was "impressed" with the app and that Apple even asked for his CV. Hughes accepted the rejection and took his app to Cydia, the unofficial, jailbroken app store. More than 50,000 copies have been sold in the past 13 months.
Hughes was surprised to see Apple's WWDC announcement about the new wireless syncing feature, which has the same name, functionality, and a very similar logo reworked to match Apple's latest feature icons.
0 comments:
Post a Comment