Where to begin? Perhaps they ain't so sophisticated down in Birmingham, but let's see...
-Kid knows that if syncing a device over WiFi was the job of an app store app, his wouldn't have been the first to the table. Its an OS thing, not an App thing.
-Kid develops a shotty and poorly functioning app. I myself paid $10 for his junk, that never ever once worked.
He told me where to go, personally, when I asked for a refund.
-Kid put no thought or creativity into the name, he called it WiFi Sync, which is a description of what it does, not a name. Nothing proprietary about it.
-Did I mention his $%^& never worked?
-Kid obviously doesn't know that the Cydia storefront is illegitimate, and not somewhere where you get credit for your work. Its a public testing ground, and Apple keeps a close eye on it. Apple plucks many, many useful tweaks and features from this place, and uses the idea for a better implementation in the official OS.
-Wifi sync was never one of the features Apple "watched and stole". It was a common sense feature that had been held back for a while...and eventually rolled out as part of the overall iOS 5 catch-up-with-feature-requests release.
That about covers it. Hope this kid saved some of that $500,000 he made. He's going to need every penny of it if he's actually dumb enough to challenge Apple over this.
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Originally Posted by
cloudgazer 
There is no way for me as an independent iOS dev to modify the iPhone's iTunes DB without breaking the rules.
Either he broke the security rules or he used private functions or he did both.
And thank you for this, end of story.
