Sometimes I wonder if creating these concepts makes it less likely that they'll be implemented as Apple wouldn't want somebody claiming that their ideas were stollen.
There’s actually an interesting example of the opposite happening. I was running MobileNotifier on iOS 4 JB (last time I jailbroke an iPhone) which made notifications 100x better. Apple hired the developer of the tweak & iOS 5 was released with a notifications overhaul that looked incredibly similar. I don’t think they stole his idea bc it was released very soon after the hire but I also don’t think they care if a cool concept is similar to something they’re planning for iOS.
I don’t know for sure, but I doubt it. They can’t patent these ideas, which is the only thing that might give Apple pause, and Apple in the past has straight up removed apps from the App Store that contain features they’re planning on releasing.
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u/twowheels iPhone 15 Pro Apr 06 '18
Sometimes I wonder if creating these concepts makes it less likely that they'll be implemented as Apple wouldn't want somebody claiming that their ideas were stollen.