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I see a section with short vertical videos on Youtube that strongly resembles a certain Chinese mobile app. Could it be that those Chinese developers, not respecting intellectual property, are now working for Youtube?

Or maybe not respecting intellectual property when it is profitable is just a worldwide tradition?

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Copying an idea is one thing. Outright stealing source code is on different level. i.e. See how Huawei got big - By copying hardware of Cisco routers and loading there Cisco firmware.

You can always check out the Huawei Github, here's some very interesting LTE modem firmware sources :

https://github.com/Huawei-LTE-routers-mods/README

You’re right, it reminds me of Silicon Valley’s Vine. Or is that not what you meant?

I remember seeing this name but never heard of anyone using it. So I don't think that Youtube would copy an unpopular app.

YouTube Shorts is a clone of Musical.ly (now rebranded as TikTok) which was a clone of Vine.

I remember seeing that the main activity or whatever it was of the YouTube app was called something like “YoutubeTiktokApplication”

That wasn’t the exact name, I’ll try to find it, but it definitely had TikTok in the name

I could also be wrong here because I was trying to patch it with ReVanced or something at the time so it could be related to the patcher

I’m not saying that means they’re copying TikTok’s source code but it’s just an odd thing I wanted to share

Someone downvoted me, it does sound odd but I think it was true, here’s someone else seeing the same thing:

https://twitter.com/imShreyasPatil/status/132039916265180364...

However someone said this: “Tiktok is an internal component in Google used by many of the apps, it was written and named like that before the social network existed and is absolutely unrelated.”

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