{"id":34832,"date":"2022-01-29T14:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34832"},"modified":"2022-01-31T14:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:46:59","slug":"unpacking-clone-was-the-app-stores-top-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/29\/unpacking-clone-was-the-app-stores-top-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking Clone Was the App Store&rsquo;s Top Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/unpacking-master-ios-play-store-clone-mobile-gaming-wit-1848414416\">Luke Plunkett<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2022\/01\/25\/shameless-unpacking-clone-was-the-app-stores-top-download\/\">Dave Mark<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/unpacking-master-ios-play-store-clone-mobile-gaming-wit-1848414416\"><p><em>Unpacking <\/em>was one of the best games of 2021, not just <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/luke-plunketts-top-10-games-of-2021-1848231602\">make my personal GOTY list<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/kotakus-2021-games-of-the-year-1848303306\">the entire site&rsquo;s as well<\/a>. It is currently available on PC, Mac, Switch and Xbox One. It is most definitely not available on Apple&rsquo;s iOS devices.<\/p><p>And yet! Earlier today, the top free download on the App Store, outranking even YouTube, Tik-Tok and Instagram, was a game called <em>Unpacking Master<\/em>, which, as you may have guessed from the price-point and platform, is not just inspired by <em>Unpacking<\/em>, but is a criminally shameless clone of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The App Store seems to make it easier for rip-offs and scams to gain traction.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/14\/pubg-developer-sues-apple-over-alleged-rip-offs-in-the-app-store\/\">PUBG Developer Sues Apple Over Alleged Rip-offs in the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/12\/wordle-clones\/\">Wordle Clones<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"unpacking-clone-was-the-app-stores-top-download-update-2022-01-31\">Update (2022-01-31): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jgordonshare\/status\/1487524175996727303\">John Gordon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jgordonshare\/status\/1487524175996727303\">\n<p>Like Amazon&rsquo;s counterfeit business.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/23\/amazon-has-ceded-control-of-its-site\/\">Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Plunkett (via Dave Mark): Unpacking was one of the best games of 2021, not just make my personal GOTY list, but the entire site&rsquo;s as well. It is currently available on PC, Mac, Switch and Xbox One. It is most definitely not available on Apple&rsquo;s iOS devices.And yet! Earlier today, the top free download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-01-29T19:33:01Z","apple_news_api_id":"b741d613-6dd3-48ac-a164-a38416ee4830","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-01-31T19:47:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/At0HWE23TSKyhZKOEFu5IMA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,31,2078,26],"class_list":["post-34832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34850,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34832\/revisions\/34850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}