Apple’s Move to iOS app yet another example of ‘innovation’

Earlier this week Android fans were treated to Apple’s first app that could be used on Android. The downside was that the app’s purpose is to help users migrate their data from an Android device over to an iPhone, ostensibly to help support consumers ordering a new iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus, although it would worker with older models. Predictably, this triggered a bunch of ire on the part of Android fans. The tale gets even better as Apple appears to have lived up to a frequent criticism – that their idea of “innovation” is slapping their name on someone else’s creation – as it has been discovered the Move to iOS app is merely a repackaged app produced by another company.

As part of a dive into some of the source code for Move to iOS, it has been determined that the creator of the app is actually a company from the U.K. called Media Mushroom. Further, the app is not even new as versions of it have been available in both the Google Play Store, as Copy My Data, and in iTunes as Device Switch. Both apps, along with the rebranded Move to iOS, were designed to aid users in migrating between different devices which is the claimed specialty of Media Mushroom.

Sources have noted that Apple does note on their website that they have access to “an extensive library of reusable white-label software” if a particular need has to be met on a short time frame. The move to get an app out to help Android users move to a new iPhone, an app with Apple’s name on it, appears to have fallen within that category.

source: Phandroid

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