Hahahaha, look at Social Butterfly. It’s 11 webapps shoved in a UITabBarController, with a thick layer of atrocious grammar on top.
The description is the best part. “The interface that your used to.” First of all, my used to? And secondly: of course it is, you moron, it’s the mobile version of the same fricking site
And there’s only one review, which seems to find the app absolutely fantastic. The fact that the reviewer’s name is blablakrap is completely unrelated
There are always going to be unscrupulous people out there, but I don’t think it should stop people from doing the right thing and offering examples and help. The only people who look stupid in this situation are the guys who thought they could release someone else’s tutorial code.
I doubt whether they fully understood your tutorial code anyway, otherwise they would have taken the concepts and made a different game.
I think you should turn the situation into a positive one and turn it into an open competition to see how many variations of your Tennis game can be submitted to Apple by different people (for free of course, with a link to your blog.)
Or, why not just polish up the tutorial and release it yourself for free, just to teach them a lesson ?
You tutorials helps me and our team a lot. And you deserve a lot of thanks for that. We just figured it out that you site has some funny posts too. It was a great fun reading this post. However seems like Apple has taken down the game otherwise, I would’ve bought it…
The game has been taken of the store. I guess Apple noticed the theft, or the brat couldn’t take the thousands of spam messages that flooded his support board and called it quits.
Peter Sheen will have a really hard time gaining back a decent reputation (if he ever had one). Let it be known, that anything that is created and distributed for free on the internet is still under copyright law protection, unless the author explicitly states it is in the public domain.
Peter Sheen and his crappy company are in my ‘Not Cool’ list from now on.
Don’t sweat the small stuff, I recommend. You were never going to sell that app, the thief is never going to make any money, and your *real* code/apps are beyond such people’s reach anyway.
Usually by the time biters have bitten the edge has moved onward.
I can’t find the app in the store anymore, their website is “under construction”, the post and forum mentioned above is no longer available… Seems someone left town in a hurry!
And now, if you would please excuse me: I have some apps to build and sell. One is a shopping list with SQLite, another is a Twitter client, a third one is about saving users settings… Uhm, lets see, what else did Brandon teach us here that we can steal…
This is really crazy. Not only does the person take your code exactly and out it on the app store, but he leaves out the splash screen . He could have given you at least a little bit of credit.
And have you seen his website??? He’s using webs.com for a free site!! And the support email is using gmail!! How could he expect to make money if his potential buyers see how much money he invested in his company (which is none).
But it is good he has taken it down now. R.I.P. for the iTennis rip-off.
I was looking on the app store for the company “BlaBlaIncTech” and I found three twitter apps by this “dev” all claiming to be the fastest ever. Anyway the one kind of resembled the turorial.
Hi. I was wondering if I could use your coding and images but yet say in the description, comments in the code, to apple that you created the original code and images? I will make it free (unless you want it to cost money).
Tell me what you think,
Andy Zimmerman
There should be some agreement before downloading the tutorial code. So that any illegal piracy or steal can be prevented and and case can filed easily against the culprit.
OMG! Why an earth would they copy your app. And second of all, why an earth did Apple accept this app in the first place, it looks crap! (No offence just saying…. the obvious). I cant believe someone would be so stupid as to copy and obvious app and not even bother changing that design even the slightest bit!
iCodeBlog was the first tutorial site that I referred when i started learning iPhone. Its sad to hear that someone lifted the code …….. nyways don’t stop putting in new tutorials.
Pretty good post, this is one of the best articles that I have ever seen! This is a great site and I have to congratulate you on the content.
I appreciate it!
Nice, and thanks for sharing this info with us.
Good Luck!
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iPhone game tutorial from iCodeBlog compiled and submitted to the iTunes App Store as a paid app.
Hahahaha, look at Social Butterfly. It’s 11 webapps shoved in a UITabBarController, with a thick layer of atrocious grammar on top.
The description is the best part. “The interface that your used to.” First of all, my used to? And secondly: of course it is, you moron, it’s the mobile version of the same fricking site
And there’s only one review, which seems to find the app absolutely fantastic. The fact that the reviewer’s name is blablakrap is completely unrelated
Now I see why Apple has been behind in approving apps! When you have 10000 tennis apps to publish, it takes time!
Haha, I post something like shame on you and a poor bad life in their forum and got a mail a few minutes before.
Hello lny ,
Uhh Ohh it looks like you have used profanity On our site Please dont let this happen again!
3/5 warnings!
Regards,
blablainctech
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I thought you might want to check this one out too…
There are always going to be unscrupulous people out there, but I don’t think it should stop people from doing the right thing and offering examples and help. The only people who look stupid in this situation are the guys who thought they could release someone else’s tutorial code.
I doubt whether they fully understood your tutorial code anyway, otherwise they would have taken the concepts and made a different game.
I think you should turn the situation into a positive one and turn it into an open competition to see how many variations of your Tennis game can be submitted to Apple by different people (for free of course, with a link to your blog.)
Or, why not just polish up the tutorial and release it yourself for free, just to teach them a lesson ?
You tutorials helps me and our team a lot. And you deserve a lot of thanks for that. We just figured it out that you site has some funny posts too. It was a great fun reading this post. However seems like Apple has taken down the game otherwise, I would’ve bought it…
cheers.
The game has been taken of the store. I guess Apple noticed the theft, or the brat couldn’t take the thousands of spam messages that flooded his support board and called it quits.
Peter Sheen will have a really hard time gaining back a decent reputation (if he ever had one). Let it be known, that anything that is created and distributed for free on the internet is still under copyright law protection, unless the author explicitly states it is in the public domain.
Peter Sheen and his crappy company are in my ‘Not Cool’ list from now on.
Seriously… what’s going on here? Here’s another! Brandon, I think from here on out you have to copyright any source you hand out here.
~t
Apart from the app, his website has also disappeared…
Don’t sweat the small stuff, I recommend. You were never going to sell that app, the thief is never going to make any money, and your *real* code/apps are beyond such people’s reach anyway.
Usually by the time biters have bitten the edge has moved onward.
Hi,
I’m currently doing your tutorial on iTennis and read about that guy who published it in the AppStore.
I was taking a look at the AppStore to see whether the stolen App is still online, which it isn’t.
But I found a game called “iTennisGame” by some guy called Khalid Shaikh which looks strikingly similar to iTennis…
Maybe you want to double check that as well.
Oh and thanks for this great tutorial! Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Georg aka Odiesoft
I can’t find the app in the store anymore, their website is “under construction”, the post and forum mentioned above is no longer available… Seems someone left town in a hurry!
And now, if you would please excuse me: I have some apps to build and sell. One is a shopping list with SQLite, another is a Twitter client, a third one is about saving users settings… Uhm, lets see, what else did Brandon teach us here that we can steal…
Keep up the good work Brandon!
This is really crazy. Not only does the person take your code exactly and out it on the app store, but he leaves out the splash screen
. He could have given you at least a little bit of credit.
And have you seen his website??? He’s using webs.com for a free site!! And the support email is using gmail!! How could he expect to make money if his potential buyers see how much money he invested in his company (which is none).
But it is good he has taken it down now. R.I.P. for the iTennis rip-off.
Pooooor baby! me meme mmememmem memem em !
Ah, the grand old Microsoft marketing model at work.
Look out Microsoft, the hounds are nipping at your heels.
lol
looks like another rip off.
They didn’t even change the colour of the net’s shadow. its still pink!
Just thought you might want to check them out.
@EMILIAN WOOD
LOL YOU NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS BLOG WITH A COMMENT LIKE THAT GIRL
Brandon put time into his tutorial regardless of copyright inifringements. I think you should given him 99 cents for every iTennis download.. hahaha
I was looking on the app store for the company “BlaBlaIncTech” and I found three twitter apps by this “dev” all claiming to be the fastest ever. Anyway the one kind of resembled the turorial.
Hi. I was wondering if I could use your coding and images but yet say in the description, comments in the code, to apple that you created the original code and images? I will make it free (unless you want it to cost money).
Tell me what you think,
Andy Zimmerman
Once again someone has used your tutorial: Search for Pong MMX game… But this time it seems, that the developer added some ‘more’ funcionality
There should be some agreement before downloading the tutorial code. So that any illegal piracy or steal can be prevented and and case can filed easily against the culprit.
OMG! Why an earth would they copy your app. And second of all, why an earth did Apple accept this app in the first place, it looks crap! (No offence just saying…. the obvious). I cant believe someone would be so stupid as to copy and obvious app and not even bother changing that design even the slightest bit!
What a complete and utter DUMBASS!
iCodeBlog was the first tutorial site that I referred when i started learning iPhone. Its sad to hear that someone lifted the code …….. nyways don’t stop putting in new tutorials.
-John
Pretty good post, this is one of the best articles that I have ever seen! This is a great site and I have to congratulate you on the content.
I appreciate it!
Nice, and thanks for sharing this info with us.
Good Luck!
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