14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like the dispute between Snapchat owners and Rudy Huyn, a well-known Windows Phone developer, is far from being over.
After its application 6snap was removed from Windows Phone Store at the request of Snapchat, Rudy Huyn launched a new app less than 24 hours ago.
The new application called 6discover replicates one of Snapchat's features called Discover, which allows users to read through content from MTV, CNN, Cosmopolitan, Food network, National Geographic, Yahoo, Comedy Central and other famous publications.
Although 6discover is not a Snapchat application and is only meant to be used as a newsreader to access promoted contents of Snapchat's Discover service, it looks like it's still doomed to be removed from Windows Phone Store.
Developer Rudy Huyn has just received a letter from Snapchat's lawyers in which they accuse him of “violation of federal and state law” because he copied and/or reproduced the “Discover” content.
It appears that 6discover for Windows Phone does not return the results on the Analytics, so Snapchat can't track those who access the content they are providing through Discover service.
A diplomatic solution is still possible
Since Snapchat receives payments from all the publications accessible through its Discover service, this basically means that the company can't charge them for those who view the content through 6discover app for Windows Phone.
Rudy Huyn has already offered to work this through with Snapchat developers and make it so that his application 6discover will provide the necessary stats in Analytics.
However, we doubt that Snapchat devs care about 6discover app users since they aren't even interested in creating any content for Windows Phone platform.
It's also a bit unclear why they would want to completely remove the app from Windows Phone Store instead of working with the developer and make 6discover send stats to Analytics.
That will basically bring them some extra money. Anyway, we'll keep an eye out for any additional details on the matter, so stay tuned.
Hey @evanspiegel can u speak with your lawyers?I'm sure it's a good thing for U & partners to have more views (1/2) pic.twitter.com/skt39hASO7
— Rudy Huyn (@RudyHuyn) April 17, 2015