Developers stealing from developers: an App Store tale →

Ars lands on a disgusting tale of deceit in the App Store development business:

If you are Paul Haddad of TapBots, LLC, it isn’t unusual to get requests for contract work. […] So when he received an e-mail earlier this month with a subject line of “I’m interested in Tapbots,” it didn’t really come as much of a surprise. What was surprising was the message content.

This prospective client wasn’t looking to hire TapBots for any development work, they were looking for confirmation that a development firm out of India did the coding on ConvertBot, a popular TapBots application. The client had found Trucid, the supposed coders of ConvertBot, on the Rentacoder.com website, a virtual cork board where companies can hang their business cards. Trucid quoted a sum of $2,400 for an application similar to ConvertBot. The only problem? TapBots designs and writes all of its applications entirely in house.

Hurts to see such disgusting behavior. Hurts even more to see India in that story.