Lifted tutorial code winds up in $0.99 App Store tennis game

There were apps by some folks calling themselves "App Genius" ... not content just selling on demo code, there were borrowing open source code and removing all credit, then selling it for profit. Seem to have disappeared now though, which is nice.

I was using iCodeBlog for the wonderful tutorials and it was helping me develop an application that had nothing to with the samples. Now when I try to get the second tutorial for the todo list the site is forbidden to me. How do I get access to this wonderful site? I also want to thank this blog for explaining what an irresponsible developer did causing the rest of the ethical developers the pain of not being able to access the iCodeBlog.

@ ymilord: can you tell me which sample code you mean?

Guys:

Apple Inc. is a business. Khalid Shaikh probably puts more money in Apple's pockets with his "dross" than any of the "gems" people are looking for.

Have you ever wondered why it is the stuff that is so "obvious" to everyone seems to be ignored with extreme prejudice by Apple? :) It is very hard to convince pretty much...anyone...to change a system that is succeeding, in spite of itself.

Remember, this is the same company that wants to charge the same cut for "In App" purchases for stuff that is either already there and "hidden" or has to be delivered and maintained on outside servers at developer expense as they do for apps they have to deliver, track and warehouse themselves :)

Why would they have a problem with a bunch of wrapped Javascript one-shot apps and a buck a piece or more, exactly?

Something to think about :)

-K

Posted By khalid.j.shaikh
Hello from Silicon Valley / Pakistan
Just saying hi.

Have a team of 6 guys in Pakistan cranking out apps. 68 so far. Going to double the team and keep going.

Love the platform.

Love you guys.

Been programming since I was 12. Am old now . Did a startup YouSendIt, got $34M in funding, but no cash out of it. I feel cheated .

http://www.iphonedevforums.com/forum/introduce-yourself/626-hello-silicon-valley-pakistan.html

I wonder if this is the same guy??

http://www.linkedin.com/in/yousendit

How many times are you going to inaccurately call it "theft" ? You can't steal intellectual property.

That being said, this is still pretty lame.

Apple needs to do something about this app-madness going on at the AppStore. I hear 50,000 apps and I don't think of that as a positive. How will I ever wade through all the dross to find the few gems?

Apple needs to find a way to filter or at least classify the developers so that the Khalid Shaikh's of the world land at the bottom of the pile. Perhaps part of the screen space on the appstore should be a featured app list where the slots are bid out to the developers so they can start to self-select. Serious, quality developers who have faith in their product should be willing to put some money where their mouth is. So it doesn't become an EA outpost, Apple can institute some tenure rules. Like you can't camp out on slot #1 for more than a week at a time with at least two weeks in between stints. Or something like that.

It seems that its very crappy one.

I'm a developer and I would happily pay more to get on the app store if it meant then end of developers such as Khalid Shaikh. 84 pages of useless applications is one of the reasons it is taking Apple 3 weeks to review my applications update. Developers should also be banned from releasing 50 versions of the same app (e.g. an app for every football team in the league) as it holds up the review process and can push new apps off the what's new section severely hurting sales of a new app.