Developers of Room App Blindsided by Facebook's Rooms App
The saying, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” does not apply in the world of applications, as the Rooms anonymous chatting app Facebook released last week raised the ire of the developers of Room, an iPhone app that debuted last month, as both apps allow users to create chat rooms and invite others to participate, without requiring real names.
The saying, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” does not apply in the world of applications, as the Rooms anonymous chatting app Facebook released last week raised the ire of the developers of Room, an iPhone app that debuted last month, as both apps allow users to create chat rooms and invite others to participate, without requiring real names.
Room co-founders Damien Rottemberg and Frank-David Cohen told 9to5Mac they are considering legal action against Facebook, with Rottemberg, also the chief technology officer at Room, issuing the following statement:
We don’t know what happened, if something was leaked from VCs (venture-capital firms) we were talking to that are very connected with Facebook, if it’s from high Facebook executives that we have on our Facebook friends list, friends of friends working at Facebook, or someone at Facebook that saw our app and thought it was cool enough to copy.
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