The question is how long Apple will stay fooled by the app clone's good name and 90-degrees-rotated icon. Unlike A Beautiful Mess, 1Password has long held a favorable standing with both Mac and iOS customers and is not an overnight success, so it's not difficult to see which developer is the real deal. Other apps in the 1Password clone's portfolio are New Afterlight, a clone of the popular photo editing app Afterlight, and Where is My Partner?, one of a handful of dubious-looking apps that purport to track the location of a phone given the name of its owner and the associated phone number (…right). When you start your subscription to 1Password using an in-app purchase on your iPhone or iPad, you can manage your subscription with Apple. As A Beautiful Mess business manager Trey George told Ars at the time, "The crazy part is there wasn't much legally we could do." App Store developers can't run riot with malware on a phone the way Play Store developers can, but they can use the app to harvest contacts or photos.Įven if developers submit a complaint to Apple, Apple tries to mediate a discussion rather than take immediate action. While an app's functionality is not usually the target, developers will often copy the name and the icon to take advantage of customers' confusion and earn a few quick bucks from retail sales or ads before getting kicked out of the store or caught by the real developers. Last fall, Ars covered the cloning spree that followed the success of the app A Beautiful Mess. The 1Password cloner's other works, the majority of which are also clones.
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