The Rise and Fall of Wordle Clones and the Emergence of Lockit

The FTC gets a second shot at Meta, after a judge okays their lawsuit edit. Samsung ghost on its own event. The state of the mobile app economy. Is cloning Wordle to release an app ok or not? And the new app at the top of the App Store that definitely comes from the, why didn’t I think of that file.

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Links:

• ‘Second time lucky?’ FTC’s case against Facebook can move forward, federal judge rules. (Washington Post)
• Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch [Update: Samsung speaks] (Ars Technica)
• Samsung Electronics to Unveil Exynos 2200 AP on Launch Day of Galaxy 22 (BusinessKorea)
• App Annie: Global app stores’ consumer spend up 19% to $170B in 2021, downloads grew 5% to 230B (TechCrunch)
• The Wordle clones have disappeared from the App Store (The Verge)
• Locket, an app for sharing photos to friends’ homescreens, hits the top of the App Store (TechCrunch)

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