Self Help Classics – great news and bad news
After asiduous work, I’m proud and happy to announce that Self Help Classics, my iPhone masterpiece, has now reached version 3.0. This means:
- gorgeous new look and feel
- full iPad compatibility -> the app looks better than ever on the iPad’s big screen
- a new dedicated website, just for it: http://selfhelpapp.com
The price? Still $0.99 if you get it now from the AppStore
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On a less happy note, I was sad to notice that other people have been shamelessly using the Self Help Classics concept, name and selected content to create apps for other mobile platforms. I’m not sure what trademark law is saying about this, but the least I can say is that what these guys are doing is completely uncool. I have worked hard to find the catchy Self Help Classics concept and name and to retrieve, format and adapt this unique content into html and iPhone format. Duplicating the exact same content in an app named exactly the same shows not only lack of respect for a fellow developer, but directly ill intention, if not intellectual property theft. Public domain content might be free, but the creative work of selecting, searching, retrieving, cleaning and adapting the format for a mobile device is not. What can I say? Some people are assholes, and I hope the law, God or Karma will punish them eventually.
If you want to support the effort of the original developer of Self Help Classics, please spread the word about this great iPhone app.
