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0 pointsgjsman-10004y ago0 comments

Microsoft does not have an official Minesweeper application for iOS, never has, and probably never will, so clones are more acceptable in that case.

Scrabble and Tetris are actually trademarked names and have official applications as far as I know. They can sue any competitor for trademark infringement. There are competitors like "Block Puzzle," but they may predate the official Tetris for presence, but I'm not certain on that.

> "What’s even less surprising is how (little) Apple apply their Guidelines when it comes to their own apps" (from post)

Actually, I think any resemblance is forced (particularly with the Translate app) and that the design decisions are more logically-based than copying. How else would you make a Translate app by Apple look?

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salamandersauce4y ago

Several of those are clearly ripping off assets from Windows minesweeper. Which is worse than mimicking gameplay. There's also no Wordle iOS app either, just a website.

Apple also happily accepted 2048 which is pretty much a straight up clone of the earlier Threes.

scarface744y ago

I bought a Tetris game from EA back when I had an original iPod Touch when the App Store was first introduced.

It was a one time purchase. It was never updated for larger screens and disappeared with the 32 bit to 64 bit transition.

Of course EA released another version around the iPhone 5 with ads an in-app purchases (?)

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