Apple Programmer Admits To Stealing Android Code For Use in iPhones
A top Apple programmer sent ripples through the mobile community with the revelation that he has been copying code from a three-year-old version of the Android operating system. Manish Karmic, a twenty eight-year-old developer who has worked for Apple for the past six years, was overheard bragging about his coding âace in the holeâ at a company function by a guest and a member of the media.Cheryl Smart, a tech blogger for Wired Magazine, was able to capture part of the conversation on her iPhone 5s.âHonestly, it pissed me off a little bit,â She wrote in her personal blog. âI mean, I just paid eight hundred dollars for this phone because it is trendy, and it âjust worksâ, and here is one of the guys who designed it laughing about how he copied obsolete technology from another operating system and passed it off as innovation. Now they are adding more recycled features, like Near Field Communications, and offering different screen sizes, two more things Android has been doing for years.âSmart claims that she heard Karmic admit to literally copying and pasting thousands of lines of code from a Samsung Galaxy SIII, a phone that the Android community has largely forgotten about.âAnd then Apple has the audacity to sue over common sense features like âpinch to zoomâ and the general shape of a phone,â Her rant continued.iPhone users everywhere are jumping to the defense of their favorite device, even after hearing the recording that Smart has uploaded to her blog. They didnât hesitate to let her know all about it in her comments section.âBig screens used to be like, so stupid, but they make like, total sense to me now,â stated one guest poster. âAnd I didnât get the whole pay-with-your-phone thing before, but now it is like, a total necessity for me.ââThey [Google] think that just because they had something first that it makes them better,â wrote another commenter. âWell, my iPhone is way better. I donât care about the open source community or removable storage. My phone fits better into my skinny jeans.âAndroid owners were quick to jump to the defense of their devices and ridicule the Apple supporters, making sure that none of them escaped unscathed.âYou guys are sheep,â read one retort by user CuddlyMuff. âIf Apple released a rotary phone with a shorted-out cord, youâd all be raving about how steampunk it was and how the crackling from the cord shorting out actually improved the quality of your calls.âOne thing is certain, as long as Google keeps innovating, the iPhone is here to stay, thanks to the handy work of geeks like Manish Karmic, who have both a cool eye for copying code and a finger on the pulse of their customers.âI could code something into iOS that should make them [iPhone users] hate the phone, but they wonât,â Manish can be heard saying on the recording. âI could code in something that would drain their bank accounts, and they would just talk about how much better their lives were with no money. Theyâll buy anything. So I just put in whatever, and go to the golf course.â