The top portion of the app takes up way too much of the screen. The tile bar thingy.
With this, the guy who undiscovered the remnants of the old Xbox Music would be in a bit of trouble... but we let that one slide.
Same here. A lot of the Windows Phone experience is integrating that Zune-like style into other services. This version of Facebook nailed it... then it got updated and just looks like any old Facebook app.I used to love this app, especially the pictures banner at the top, if they could add that back to the current version, but smaller that would be amazing.
Um... no? If you're talking about the app that launches the native Music+Video app, it's not even remotely the same. With that, the Music+Video app was never removed, just hidden in favor of the Xbox Music app. Someone just released an app that simply launches it (probably using an URI scheme). He didn't download any code (because it's impossible since it's native) and republished it as his own. He wrote an simple but original app that requests the OS to launch the old Music+Video native app. There are a few ways of launching apps from another apps (including URI schemes) that makes stuff like launching gps apps or launching FB messenger from FB possible.
With this, the XAP, a package of compiled code was developed and generated by Microsoft and whoever this "dev" is published it. I doubt the dev even has access to the source code nor did he write any of it originally. Totally different scenarios.
This app was the official facebook app for windows phone which was unpublished from the store.
Which is the official Facebook app. Note they are making use of capabilities denied to third party apps as well."Official" Facebook app? There is NO official FB app, the closest we have is the one provided by MS.
It's still plagiarism regardless of whether or not he actually had the source code. Publishing the XAP is similar to say, taking someone's essay in Word document format and submitting it as your own. It doesn't matter if you touched the code, republishing old software that was created by another entity is the offending action.
You are right though, they are different scenarios but they can also have similar consequences if someone decided to take action.