Voscreen, a foreign language education application published by Turkish developers in 2014 and opened to use in all parts of the world in a short time, was stolen by the Chinese and published on the App Store. The request sent by the Chinese company that stole the application to Apple shows the extent of the brazenness.
In the world of technology, being “inspired” is quite natural. A feature, an app, is developed and if it becomes popular, imitations will soon become widespread. Since the days when Facebook brought Snapchat’s main feature as Stories to Instagram and then to all its apps, users have also dominated this subject.
However, Turkish company Voscreen’s experience is not just an ordinary imitation situation. From its logo to its design, from its content to its name. The entire application was copied exactly by Chinese developers. Available to iPhone and iPad users on the App Store in China. Moreover, at this time, the Turkish company Voscreen was already a well-known brand in China. Naturally, on behalf of the company, the founder Deniz Dündar is about to sue Apple in the USA for allegedly “mediating the sale of the stolen application”.
We conveyed the experiences of Voscreen in our video below:
One day after this video was released, the Chinese company that stole Voscreen made a brazen request from Apple:
Shanghai Heterogenous Network Technology In the text of the e-mail sent to Apple by the Chinese company named “The name and logo of the fake application were changed to a different name, all metadata (structured information) collected about the application was deleted and sent for review as such” he is writing. Moreover, in the CC section of the e-mail, there is also Deniz Dundar, the founder of Voscreen, who has already shared this e-mail from his personal LinkedIn account.
In other words, the Chinese company, the Turkish company Voscreen, despite everything, for the purpose of reconciliation. “Come, let’s unite under our roof and establish an investment partnership” rejects the offer directly, but decides to change the name and logo of the application, making this update and sending it to Apple for review. In Apple’s application market, the App Store, these changes are reflected to users after an audit and approval process, just like in new application releases.
As a matter of fact, Apple’s review rules for the App Store work differently in China. It is impossible to publish applications in categories that are prohibited by government decision in the country. Also, for this reason, the App Store in China is quite different from the App Store in Turkey, and if developers want to enter the Chinese market, On the App Store in China they have to publish the app separately.
What is Voscreen waiting for?
Apple after what happened “mediating the sale of the fake application, in this way, affiliate marketing between 15% and 30%” Voscreen, which is preparing to sue in the USA with accusations, will demand that Apple revise these regulations if it wins this case. In other words, it will be requested to take steps to prevent similar grievances by demanding that applications make it more difficult to steal and publish.
Then, at the table where Voscreen officials, Chinese and Turkish state officials were also present, Apple, the Chinese company that copied the application, and Huawei sit down and compromise (A copy of the application has also been published in Huawei’s App Gallery in China, according to Deniz Dundar’s statements).
News and developments about Voscreen; is conveyed regardless of the financial incentives the company has committed to publicize the alleged justification. Webtekno is at a neutral point about #AppleVoscreenCase.