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  • As much as I like Themer I do question their use of other people’s intellectual property. They have a few Harry Potter and Game of Thrones themes on there. Do you honestly think they got J.K. Rowling and George R.R. Martins permission to use them? If they were just fanboys developing the themes for their own use I would think it’s fine. But they are trying to develop a product that they want to bring to market and hopefully sell. And in that regard I can see Apple’s point.

  • Android is at about 51% and growing while Apple is at 42.7% and shrinking in the US smartphone market. Android now has over 80% of the smartphone global market so Apple please continue worrying about icons and themes, your time is now limited..

  • Apple. Spend less time suing people and more time worrying about your products and software. I’m looking at you iOS 7

    • It’s easier to patent everything under the sun and then sue for anything remotely resembling your products (ie, rounded rectangles, swipe to unlock) even when there are undeniable instances of prior art. The US patent system is fubar.

  • While this blows, they shouldn’t have used / copied Apple icons for a theme, nor should any other theme. The artwork belongs to Apple. If you (yeah, you, the guy about to down vote me.. I see you) created an icon pack that was making you some big bucks on the Play store found out that someone lifted all your image work and created a knock off pack with it, would you not want them to cease? Lets also pretend for a moment that you spent weeks of hard work creating those images, rather than lifting them from someone else.. since that’s probably what anyone down voting this would really have done.

  • Maybe one day, Apple will get off their high horse and create an iDroid. This is from the co-founder, Steve Woz.

    • Won’t happen. Apple’s not really in the hardware business. Selling their hardware with android on it would take money away from their bottom line and add to android’s. Doesn’t make sense.

  • So why not send a C&D order to the developer to pull the Seven theme? The app itself is not violating Apple copyrights or “intellectual property”.
    Apple has so many tech companies by the balls, it is ridiculous.

  • Was never a big fan of Themer in the first place. I got my beta invite and tried it out for about a day or so on my GS4. Then tried it again when I got my Nexus 5. Something about it was just off. I thought it was clunky and just not a very good home-screen replacement.

  • Apple is the girl at the party that calls all the other girls a slut when the guys aren’t paying her any attention.

  • I have had similar bad luck. I had an iOS7 uccw theme in the play store and it was kind of popular. Then all of a sudden, Google suspended it without mailing me. When I contacted play store support, they told me I can file DMCA counter notice. i.e. The app was taken down because of a DMCA complain and Google didn’t even send me the DMCA complain copy. Anyway, I submitted the DMCA counter notice and instead of getting the app reinstated, Google terminated my developer account. I had 50+ apps in the store; I lost all of them. And they have rejected my petition to reverse the account termination three times now.

    Here are the theme screenshots if anyone wants to see.

    • I’ll summarize this message for you: Apple’s cool with us now that we pulled the theme. Google?: Crickets…

  • I want to go find Steve Jobs headstone and piss on it and then carve the android logo into the stone. and paint it green.

      • Yes, some of Apple’s ways of doing things are questionable but disrespecting the guy who changed the way we use technology isn’t cool. You are not impressing anyone nor do people think you are cool.

      • You must have found something wrong with what you said, otherwise you wouldn’t have edited out the part where you wanted to urniated on the late Steve Jobs’s headstone.

    • u know what?? I don’t care. just voicing my opinion!

      I run a Macbook Pro. And the brand New Mac Pro.

      Some apple products are amazing.

      Windows computers suck the big one.

      I just dont support IOS. Android all the way. And Im tired off all of apples mindless lawsuits over stupid things. Next they will sue over the “on button”

      LOL

      • Its cliche, but don’t hate the player, hate the game. The US patent laws allow them to do it. You can’t hate on people for playing the game the way the rules are set to be played.

  • Let’s theme our awesome Androids with the look of Apple’s uncustomizable desktop. I know it still has the Android goodness – but really?

  • You all citizen apple yet get angry when a iOS 7 theme gets removed? My color screen is obviously coming back.

    Much drama

    • We aren’t mad that an iOS theme got removed, we are mad that Apple caused the entire app to be removed from the Play Store, which therefore, stopped development on this amazing App

        • Because it’s Apple, and everyone from tech companies to the US patent office has Apple’s balls in their mouth.

  • Wow, Themer has been my home replacement since Droid-Life first wrote about it. I loved this app, made your phone visually awesome

  • What about espier 7.. ? i think that launcher is more in violation of this .. and he makes money on it where themer was free ?

  • I was just reading an article about how Apple has been sued 92 times in the past 3 years by patent trolls. 50 of the claims have been settled, 37 are still ongoing and a couple have been dropped by the pursuing company

    • Then let’s say it in all languages. I’ll start:

      Canadian French: Esti d’Apple à marde. Pas capable d’accepter le succès des autres, ils sont obliger de poursuivre tout ce qui bouge. Mangez donc tous de la marde Apple.

    • Offtopic, but when I realized that Inigo is the same actor that plays Saul Berenson on Homeland, it blew my mind and my brian is now taking 2 days off to recover from nostalgia shock.

      • I don’t.I like both anbdroid and apple I hate immature idiots who go off like middle schoolers when it comes to the platform of choice.

        • You mean, an OS that ripped off Android, and sues everybody in sight. Yeah, we should love them!

          • When my friend, who absolutely loves Apple, says he hates iOS 7 because it looks very identical to my phone, that says enough.

          • Please tell me which phone. It still looks like a bunch of boxes on the home screen. Did you have “Seven” installed on your home screen? That would explain it, if not I can’t wait for this answer.

          • No you can’t tell me a phone that it resembles, that’s the problem. Caught in a fib, no big deal, happens.

          • There’s a difference between using icons on a screen, then blatantly stealing features. But hey, if you want an iPhone go enjoy it. Just don’t bring that here.

            And immature fanboys? Just stop there. Nothing you are saying is making sense.

          • So you have an HTC phone, running ICS, and you was listening to Google music while he had iTunes Radio playing. And he came to the conclusion IOS 7 was a rip off of your phone. Highly unlikely, but it’s your story!

          • I’ve been reading this site since my OG Droid days. Not defending, but not crying that someone got their hand slapped for getting caught doing wrong.

          • I’m thinking most people defending anything are defending the theft of art, not the apple brand. Create original art and you wont find yourself under a DMCA notice.

          • It’s a theme, not a clone. How much money do you think Apple lost because of the Seven theme?

            If there is a kit kat theme on a jailbroken iPhone, his much money do you think Google lost?

            Zero in each case

          • Doesn’t matter in principle. Did the developer give Apple money for using their design? There lies the problem!

          • This is what people fail to understand. There needs to be a material loss in intellectual/design patent infringement. In order to be infringing on a patent Apple has to be able to prove that the infringement caused lost revenue for Apple. Since themer and the seven theme are free there is no lost revenue. If MCS was making money off the theme then they would have a case. Instead they are bullying them around and just generally being a dick.

          • All you need is one person to say they WOULD have bought an iPhone, but instead they put Themer/Seven on their existing Android phone, and boom… lost revenue.

          • What’s next, Apple going to sue the Mickey Mantle estate for his use of usinf the #7 on his jersey fifty years ago?

          • You’re actually far from the truth. Apple could very well go to court to prove material loss. They could counter that these free themes detract from iPhone sales because people can experience their design by use of the themes rather than buying their product. You don’t want them to do that, because they could then find these small developers liable for the loss. You don’t have to charge money for something to incur material loss against another. It isn’t bullying, they want the art they paid to create to stay on their devices. I for one say let it stay there. People who want their android to look / operate like an iphone need their head examined.

    • Look I don’t like CrApple myself, but I will say that if you like having a theme that makes your screen look like CrApple’s crummy theme then get a sh!tty maxiPhone. Don’t insult AOSP with their sh!t.

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