Posted on 06/14/2016 5:20:28 PM PDT by Utilizer
At WWDC 2016 Apple announced a new app called Breathe as part of its watchOS 3 for the Apple Watch. The app focuses on helping users stay stress free by deep breathing. It reminds users to do breathing meditation and even helps them via haptic guiding. Now, a developer called Ben Erez has claimed that Apple has ripped off his app with the same name available on Apple Store for over a year.
“We’ve had the same concept, same spelling, similar functionality in the App store for phone and watch for over a year. We built the app because the existing mindfulness apps were insufficient in that they all focus on intense sessions of 5-20 minutes, once per day. We wanted a mindfulness experience that was felt throughout the day in smaller bits,” Erez said in an e-mail statement to BGR India.
According to Erez, the app was launched in April 2015 and has seen over 6,500 downloads. He claims that Apple has not just ripped off the name of his app but it’s functionality as well.
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I'm mindful for maybe 30 seconds every so often when I go and get a fresh beer. Does that count?
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