Developer Steals iPhone App Code, Submits As Own

mr_nice_guy Meet Brandon Trebitowski. He’s a nice guy. You know, the kind of guy who lets you cut ahead of him in a grocery store checkout line if you have fewer items. The kind of guy who holds the door open for you. The kind of guy who sees a wandering dog and attempts to locate its owner. Yeah, that’s Brandon … he’s a nice guy.

Brandon is also a geek. He develops iPhone web apps and has released the Cost Per Square Foot Calculator and the Daily Calorie apps. While learning to code these apps, Brandon noticed there was a severe lack of iPhone programming tutorials on the web. So being the nice guy he is, Brandon started the iCodeBlog to assist other developers and share his programming knowledge.

One of Brandon’s most popular articles is the “iPhone Game Programming Tutorial” in which he gives step-by-step instructions on how to build an iPhone game called iTennis (a Pong-style game). The iTennis tutorial includes everything the aspiring developer will need to build the game … graphics, sounds, game mechanics and of course, the code.

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So one day when Brandon was taking a break from doing nice things, he came across a Pong-style iPhone game called iTennis. Hmmm … Pong-style iPhone game … iTennis … WTF – this is nice guy Brandon’s app … being sold by BlaBlaIncTech for 99 cents a download. BlaBlaIncTech lifts the nice guy code, graphics, sounds, etc … get’s Apple’s approval and positions themselves to profit of a freaking tutorial. Wow … talk about a total DOUCHE BAG.

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youdouchebag Oh and save the bullshit legalize debate of public domain vs. copyright infringement. We’re talking about right vs. wrong … we’re talking about morals, ethics and principles (oh that’s right, we forgot … big business has no ethics … LOL). If you think lifting a tutorial code and selling it for profit is all good … well then you are a total DOUCHE BAG as well (see, we knew the youDB app would come in handy).

Be sure to read Brandon’s firsthand account of the imposter iTennis app over at his web site. We guess our only question to Apple is … do nice guys finish last?

Comments

  • I think if you were to cross reference the set of useful tutorials on the web and Apple dev site against the App Store, you would find you could write several hundred articles like this.

    It's lame, but welcome to the Wild West of Software Development.

  • I think if you were to cross reference the set of useful tutorials on the web and Apple dev site against the App Store, you would find you could write several hundred articles like this.

    It's lame, but welcome to the Wild West of Software Development.

  • I think if you were to cross reference the set of useful tutorials on the web and Apple dev site against the App Store, you would find you could write several hundred articles like this.

    It's lame, but welcome to the Wild West of Software Development.

  • I think if you were to cross reference the set of useful tutorials on the web and Apple dev site against the App Store, you would find you could write several hundred articles like this.

    It's lame, but welcome to the Wild West of Software Development.

  • LOL … yeah, we figured maybe give iTennis a new skin, some new graphics –
    hell, at least a new freaking name … but WTF. Ahhh, those crazy dev geeks
    in the “Wild West of Software Development” (love the term).

  • LOL … yeah, we figured maybe give iTennis a new skin, some new graphics –
    hell, at least a new freaking name … but WTF. Ahhh, those crazy dev geeks
    in the “Wild West of Software Development” (love the term).

  • LOL … yeah, we figured maybe give iTennis a new skin, some new graphics –
    hell, at least a new freaking name … but WTF. Ahhh, those crazy dev geeks
    in the “Wild West of Software Development” (love the term).

  • LOL … yeah, we figured maybe give iTennis a new skin, some new graphics –
    hell, at least a new freaking name … but WTF. Ahhh, those crazy dev geeks
    in the “Wild West of Software Development” (love the term).

  • LOL … yeah, we figured maybe give iTennis a new skin, some new graphics –
    hell, at least a new freaking name … but WTF. Ahhh, those crazy dev geeks
    in the “Wild West of Software Development” (love the term).

  • Douche Bag

  • Douche Bag

  • Douche Bag

  • Douche Bag

  • Thinking we might claim the phrase “Douche Bag” as the official KRAPPS
    mantra … the phrase is certainly handy.

  • Thinking we might claim the phrase “Douche Bag” as the official KRAPPS
    mantra … the phrase is certainly handy.

  • Thinking we might claim the phrase “Douche Bag” as the official KRAPPS
    mantra … the phrase is certainly handy.

  • Thinking we might claim the phrase “Douche Bag” as the official KRAPPS
    mantra … the phrase is certainly handy.

  • Daccx1

    Thats the biggest douchebag i have seen and i just to live in mexico….

  • Daccx1

    Thats the biggest douchebag i have seen and i just to live in mexico….

  • Daccx1

    Thats the biggest douchebag i have seen and i just to live in mexico….

  • Daccx1

    Thats the biggest douchebag i have seen and i just to live in mexico….

  • Ben

    Can't really call him (Peter Sheen) a developer. The headline should be “Thief Steals iPhone App Code, Submits As Own”. or maybe “Wanna Be Developer Steals iPhone App Code, Submits As Own”.

  • Ben

    Can't really call him (Peter Sheen) a developer. The headline should be “Thief Steals iPhone App Code, Submits As Own”. or maybe “Wanna Be Developer Steals iPhone App Code, Submits As Own”.

  • Ben

    Can't really call him (Peter Sheen) a developer. The headline should be “Thief Steals iPhone App Code, Submits As Own”. or maybe “Wanna Be Developer Steals iPhone App Code, Submits As Own”.

  • Ben

    Can't really call him (Peter Sheen) a developer. The headline should be “Thief Steals iPhone App Code, Submits As Own”. or maybe “Wanna Be Developer Steals iPhone App Code, Submits As Own”.

  • TBag

    Double Douche

  • TBag

    Double Douche

  • TBag

    Double Douche

  • TBag

    Double Douche

  • oh yeah?!?! we triple douche dog dare you! ! 😉

  • oh yeah?!?! we triple douche dog dare you! ! 😉

  • oh yeah?!?! we triple douche dog dare you! ! 😉

  • oh yeah?!?! we triple douche dog dare you! ! 😉

  • saintsalive

    OMG… there is ANOTHER ripped off app of the EXACT SAME CODE… called “iTennisGame” in the app store…At least they changed a few sprites… And its icon is a PICTURE OF SONIC PLAYING TENNIS… What the…?

  • saintsalive

    OMG… there is ANOTHER ripped off app of the EXACT SAME CODE… called “iTennisGame” in the app store…At least they changed a few sprites… And its icon is a PICTURE OF SONIC PLAYING TENNIS… What the…?

  • saintsalive

    OMG… there is ANOTHER ripped off app of the EXACT SAME CODE… called “iTennisGame” in the app store…At least they changed a few sprites… And its icon is a PICTURE OF SONIC PLAYING TENNIS… What the…?

  • saintsalive

    OMG… there is ANOTHER ripped off app of the EXACT SAME CODE… called “iTennisGame” in the app store…At least they changed a few sprites… And its icon is a PICTURE OF SONIC PLAYING TENNIS… What the…?

  • dikniy

    Another rip off: Paddle Tennis

    iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/

  • dikniy

    Another rip off: Paddle Tennis

    iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/