Apple copied product Teleport as “Sign in with Apple”

If there are any significant similarities in implementation, independent reinvention seems more likely. The list of similarities appears to me to be mostly surface-level trivialities of marketing copy rather than technical details, and I see no outright plagiarism.

I looked it up because I didn't see a link, and I was not impressed by his original posting to NANOG: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-February/0996...

Cynically, it not plausible that a big company like Apple could deliberately steal and launch a security-sensitive marquee product in only four months based on a whitepaper. If this author sues, discovery will almost certainly show development started on "Sign in with Apple" at least months before his NANOG message with briefs and requisitions for headcounts and such going back months more.

Can you elaborate how this is different to this: https://beebom.com/sign-in-with-apple-patent-infringement-an...?

Would that be another infringement or is it the same concept?

> Apple copied our product as "Sign in with Apple" and putting millions of developers at risk.

I'm not following the "putting million of developers at risk". Is that because of Apple violating their patent?

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All this seems like pretty straightforward oauth stuff to me. The author at some point mentioned Good giving out access to full accounts in regards to PokemonGo that iirc was a mistake and fixed.

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The thread mentioned in the article is a bit weird and long-winded as well. I wasn't able to read much from either it, or the paper.

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-February/0996...