Yo Is Trying To Get Parody App YOLO and Others Pulled From The App Store

Of course! Because the market for yo-styled communication software and devices is worth around 7 trillions USD.<p>If twitter is valued around 50 billions USD with 140 char messages then it is only fair and sensible to value Yo at ((140 - strlen(&quot;yo&quot;)) * twitter_valuation) USD.

1. Build toy app in a weekend.<p>2. See it go viral.<p>3. Somehow raise money -- because crazy user &#x27;growth&#x27; is the new &#x27;eyeballs&#x27;.<p>4. Pay lawyers to take down similar apps -- also created in a weekend.<p>5. Users get bored and move on to the next thing.<p>Apps like this are no different to a short-lived meme. This is not value creation.

&gt;Improving on our concept is welcome<p>Well shoot I better start on my &quot;Dude&quot; app that lets whoever you messaged respond with &quot;Sweet&quot;.

I hope Apple&#x27;s response to this wasting of their time is to decide that none of these apps meet the basic requirements of usefulness and pull all of them, including Yo, from the App Store.<p>It was funny for a while but let&#x27;s not start a trend of worthless trademark trolling becoming the new software patents.

Patent 53165464: Mechanism to send the word &quot;Yo&quot; to other users. On a computer.

As long as my &quot;Hodor&quot; app can stay around, I don&#x27;t care.<p>Hodor

All kidding aside, Yo&#x27;s use case <i>is</i> real. We just typically call it a <i>ping</i>. But implicit in a ping is a <i>response</i>. I assume that typical use of Yo also involves a response. So, someone please do the right thing and implement a &quot;Ping&quot; app which, upon receiving a ping, gives the user an explicit option to respond with &quot;ACK&quot;.

Does anyone else find this so stupid its hilarious?<p>You can&#x27;t claim an app to message people is your IP.

It should be noted that Yo has been consistently falling down the app charts since it hit the peak during its 15 minutes of fame. It&#x27;s currently #65 in category on the App Store when it used to be #5 overall (and received the funding).

&gt; That may be true, but the YOLO app is also a bit of a joke. Explains Betty Xi, one of the team members who helped create YOLO, their app was built to “poke fun at Yo.”<p>Should have called it &quot;Dumb Yo.&quot; <a href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/02/09/42085/dumb-starbucks-coffee-shop-opens-in-los-feliz/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scpr.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;09&#x2F;42085&#x2F;dumb-starbucks-cof...</a>

Yo is just trying again to remain in the headlines. Spending their million wisely.

When we launched coffitivity.com (a silly but surprisingly popular website) we had about 100 clones come out, a few in the app store actually using our name. We had a little more pride than to try to get them taken down.

Everyone agrees that YO was an easy to make and good for nothing application.Generating a huge amount of funding was a marketing gimmic and ofcource it attracts compitition give that its so &quot;easy to develop&quot;.

Someone should open source code and people should submit similar apps. Copyright infingement is a little far fetched when other apps are specifically parody&#x2F;satire apps.<p>My app would be called something like fuckyo!

The sobriety of Or&#x27;s emails to his &quot;competition&quot; makes him seem completely delusional to the absurdity of his application&#x27;s popularity and existence.

Yo is the &quot;Hot Dog Toaster&quot;[1] of the app world. It does one thing and does it great. But there are other things that have the same functionality AND will also do more. It is a single use app(liance) that will just clutter your place up eventually.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=hot%20dog%20toaster" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;?field-keywords=hot%20dog%20toaster</a>

I thought Yo was a parody app!

Maybe they should try and get iMesssages pulled. Because I stopped using Yo app after first 3 mins but now between friends we sometimes text &quot;yo&quot; to start&#x2F;end the conversation. But that is getting old too.

I&#x27;m surprised Apple took Yo&#x27;s complaint seriously. This is the verbatim text of their complaint: &quot;The app is a complete fake copy of our Yo app&quot;.

10 million valuation and 1.5M in funding.<p>Is it possible that funding this kind of project is form of fraud&#x2F;giving money to friends&#x2F;family ? I mean if you are in position to fund such project using company money and your friends work for that project then 10M valuation checks out. Maybe you could use your money as well for tax purposes (no idea how that works in US). People aren&#x27;t usually too happy to give money away and it&#x27;s hard to believe anybody takes 10M valuation seriously so fraud is one natural hypothesis to consider.

I have no idea what Yo is. Can someone explain it to me? (I&#x27;m a windows phone user, there is no Yo app)

Joke&#x27;s over.

This reminds me of the Flappy Bird says!

WTF YO