What if an app provides negative value? Right now every successful app has a few dozen knockoffs that are deliberately confusingly similar, and functionally identical or inferior; it makes discovery considerably more difficult, especially if you're looking for something that isn't a hit or a ripoff of a hit.
I'm pretty sure nobody is advocating for warez or exact copy apps, but you need to be careful drawing that line.
Just because to you it's "just another bejeweled clone" doesn't make it so. A layperson would probably think that HN is "just another reddit", and that's not any more valid.
Luckily (or unluckily depending on which side you are on) we already have laws that define this for us. Trademark, copyright, and patents. For better or for worse, that's legally what we have to work with.
Not bad, as such. I'm all for someone writing an app that adds value/entertainment and makes them some money. But at the same time.. how many do we really need?
