Well, it's happened – I have a cheap ripoff!
As you may know, I have an iPhone application called ThisDay, which shows “today in history,” holidays, famous birthdays, etc. The database for this took a while to put together, what with editing for interestingness, verifying things, writing the actual entries, etc.
Now, someone has released a cheap, half-assed copy with almost exactly the same name (“This Day,” with the space). It has “today in history” lists copied verbatim from Wikipedia! No effort whatsoever. Also, having gone through Wikipedia's lists, I can tell you that their accuracy is often questionable.
This isn't even looking at everything else I have, like Jewish holidays calculated for any year, streamlined in-app Wikipedia viewing, etc. This, I guess, is my competition – look at what you can get for 99 cents! And I still can't charge much more than that without people complaining.
To clarify, this loser hasn't stolen anything from me, and the name is pretty straightforward and obvious, so there's probably nothing to that, either.
But I think I'm flattered.
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