How App Store grifters clone an overnight success to make a quick buck

Ars Technica
By Casey JohnstonAug 29, 2013, 6:20 pm297 pts
Aurich Lawson The app had only been out three months, and already the creators of A Beautiful Mess were scrambling to deal with a big problem: clones, copycats, and rip-offs, as many as seven of them, crowding the search results in the App Store. The clones appeared to be legitimate, affiliated versions, yet…

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