{"id":94133,"date":"2009-12-22T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091218\/0115307420.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-22T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T16:38:00","slug":"htc-sends-cease-desist-to-developer-who-made-similar-android-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/94133","title":{"rendered":"HTC Sends Cease &amp; Desist To Developer Who Made Similar Android Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim K alerts us to the news that phone maker HTC has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/2009\/12\/16\/htc-hits-levelupstudio-with-cd-over-beautiful-widgets\/\" >sent a cease &#038; desist nastygram<\/a> to the developers of an Android widget that certainly had a similar look and feel to HTC&#8217;s own Sense UI.  Except, many people claim that this newer widget, from LevelUp Studios, <a href=\"http:\/\/androidforums.com\/android-applications\/27925-level-up-studio-beautiful-widgets-given-c-d-htc.html\" >was actually better<\/a>.  LevelUp apparently has no interest in fighting this, and are ditching the widget, but it seems that they could have a decent argument here.  The bigger question, though, is why HTC is bothering?  I&#8217;m actually a big HTC fan.  My last two mobile phones have both been from HTC, and I had been <i>expecting<\/i> my next one to be from HTC as well.  But this sort of bullying for no good reason makes me wonder why I&#8217;d want to support a company like that.  Honestly, what was HTC &#8220;losing&#8221; by letting this widget be created?  This seems like bullying just for the sake of bullying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091218\/0115307420.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091218\/0115307420.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091218\/0115307420&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c319e67be23a00f43dd54148085b16f0&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c319e67be23a00f43dd54148085b16f0&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=j-T-xgc7Ai0:DFaZAHckNC4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=j-T-xgc7Ai0:DFaZAHckNC4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=j-T-xgc7Ai0:DFaZAHckNC4:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/j-T-xgc7Ai0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim K alerts us to the news that phone maker HTC has sent a cease &#038; desist nastygram to the developers of an Android widget that certainly had a similar look and feel to HTC&#8217;s own Sense UI. Except, many people claim that this newer widget, from LevelUp Studios, was actually better. LevelUp apparently has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}