"Creative crash... ”

Kevin Strom, the founder of INS, sat in a chair, looking at the functions and effects displayed by the photo wall app on his mobile phone, his face was extremely ugly, and he muttered in an extremely bitter tone.

Plagiarism, borrowing, and creative crashing are silly and unclear at the critical point of the three.

Plagiarism, borrowing, and crashing incidents in various fields are endless, especially in the design industry, the boundaries of plagiarism are very subtle, in addition to those who "know the law and break the law, knowingly commit it" plagiarism, there are also some "alleged" plagiarized works, that is really "the public says that the public is reasonable, the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable", even the design manuscript, the design concept of both sides may be the first to say, that is the most speechless creative crash.

In fact, in the strict sense, the so-called originality is almost none, because every day I will be exposed to all kinds of information, see all kinds of things, and sometimes I don't care about it, but it already exists in the subconscious, and one day it may suddenly pop up and become my own inspiration. Therefore, there is really no way to entangle design and creativity with the original and the unoriginal, because everyone is actually just recreating on the basis of borrowing.

And the creative crash is undoubtedly the most embarrassing, and what makes people vomit blood is that the other party's product has been launched for the first time, and it is too late to say anything now.

The problem is that this kind of IT product creativity is not an artistic or design creative collision, you can sue the other party for plagiarism or something, and there is no concept of plagiarism in the IT world, because there is no so-called patent or copyright before, and naturally there is no concept of plagiarism, and now the most helpless and depressed two founders of INS vomit blood.

This Instagram app in the UK has been listed for the first time, which has become an established fact, and if their INSAPP continues to be successfully written and pushed to the market, they will become plagiarists, to explain the embarrassment of creative crashes, and may even end up being labeled as plagiarism, a complete failure.

"Krieger, I don't know what to do anymore... Kevin looked at his partner Krieg with a wry smile and said, "Perhaps, we should cry for a few minutes, to be honest, I really can't believe that the other party's APP is exactly the same as our idea, which in my opinion, is impossible!"

Because this idea is only known to the two of us, but, the facts are in front of us, and the feeling I feel now is really indescribable, not angry, but overwhelmed, maybe all this is really just a stupid accident!"

"I understand your feelings, I'm at a loss right now... Krieger also smiled wryly and reached out to rub his cheeks, leaned back on the sofa in a bit of despair, stared blankly at the dazzling lights on the ceiling, and muttered softly, "Shet, what a terrible day!"

The room fell silent, and I don't know how long it took, Kevin Strom looked at the completely decadent collaborator nestled in the sofa motionless, shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, raised the mobile phone in his hand, and checked the number of downloads of the app called Instagram on the Apple App Store, 138,911.

To be honest, seeing this download number, Kevin doesn't know what to say, although his most INS creativity is full of expectations, but he never dared to expect his APP to have such a high number of downloads without publicity, what is the origin of the other party?

"Krieger, do you know the details of the app development team?"

Hearing Kevin's question, Krieger, who returned to reality from pessimism and disappointment, frowned slightly, looked at Kevin and said, "I don't know, but it's on the app, you want to... “

"Well, I want to talk to them... ”

"What are you talking about, is it necessary?" Krieger frowned and looked at Kevin with a serious face, and said helplessly: "We are in San Francisco, and the other party is a British company, we have no intersection with each other, there is no plagiarism or borrowing, the only explanation is the embarrassing creative crash, and the other party has already started, and the results are outstanding, they have succeeded, and we are the losers."

Think about it from another perspective, do you think the other side will care about our rhetoric? Maybe the other side will think that we are trying to blackmail us, but we are just bringing humiliation on ourselves!"

"You're wrong, Krieger, there are no two leaves in the same world, no two inspirations are the same, there are some differences. I don't think the other party wants to hear about our ideas!" Kevin said with a serious and solemn face as he looked at Krieger, who had completely lost his motivation and confidence.

"You mean ... Talking about cooperation with the other party?" Hearing Kevin's words, Krieger suddenly came to his senses, and looked at his partner with bright eyes and said.

"Cooperation?" Kevin shook his head with a wry smile, threw the phone in his hand to Krieger and said, "Why should we cooperate with each other, look at the number of downloads, and replace it with us, are you confident that you can do better than them?"

The most important thing for us now is the stop loss, and it took us almost a year, the strength and financial resources, and the $500,000 seed round of financing when the company was founded, if we don't think about it, it will really be completely wasted.

The best thing to do is to join the other company, and I believe that some of our ideas will be more attractive to them, and they will be more than happy to accept us, so as to eliminate a potential competitor, if the other party's boss is an ambitious and smart person. ”

"Okay, that's all there is to it, should we inform our investors?"

"Well, you really should tell the other party, although it's unfortunate, but there's no way to do it, after all, no one wants to... ”

The next morning, Arthur instinctively scratched the tip of his nose in his sleep, but still did not relieve the itching, he could only continue to scratch, three times later, he slowly opened his sleepy eyes, and what came into his eyes was a pretty face, which was pursing his lips and smiling, and his long golden hair was constantly squeezing Taylor Swift on the tip of his nose with his long golden hair in his hand.

Arthur smiled on his face, wrapped his arms around Taylor, gently greeted her, and said softly, "Good morning, dear." ”

"Giggles, it's almost noon, good morning. Taylor's extremely ruddy face showed a cute expression of coquettishness, and he smiled coquettishly.

"It's so late... Arthur glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, and sure enough, it was already past 11 o'clock, and asked with a slight frown: "What about my mobile phone, have there been any calls coming in?"

"You forgot, when you came back in the early morning, you turned off your phone... Taylor's fox eyes glanced at Arthur charmingly, and his pretty face was slightly reddened.

"Oops-"

Because the photo wall APP has played a strong celebrity effect with the help of Taylor, a group of Hollywood new generations, and then at the party, everyone had more fun and drank a little too much, Taylor and he didn't care about the paparazzi's chase, so they returned to the villa, and the happy Arthur naturally wouldn't easily let go of Taylor, who let him fall into the trap of his girlfriend's torture.

Worried about being disturbed, he turned off his phone. After taking the mobile phone Taylor handed to him, Arthur said thank you, and quickly turned on the phone, and in the gap between booting, Arthur smiled at Taylor: "Don't you go to the recording studio today?"

"No, it's already surrounded by paparazzi outside. Taylor, who was snuggled in Arthur's arms, said helplessly.

"It's all paparazzi out there?" asked Arthur, frowning slightly.

"Well, since we came back in the early hours of the morning, until now, there are more and more paparazzi. Taylor looked at Arthur a little shyly and said, "My dad called and said he wanted to invite you to his house. ”

"Huh?"

Arthur couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, looked at Taylor with a sweet smile, and said with a little embarrassed smile: "This, this is to see the parents, isn't it... ”

"Hmph!" Seeing Arthur's embarrassed look, Taylor snorted, a pair of fox eyes glared at Arthur angrily, "When I was in Milan, you lied to me... I don't see you saying it's developing too fast!"

"Ahem... Arthur looked at Taylor, who was a little angry, coughed a few times to hide his embarrassment, and just wanted to coax a few words, but the mobile phone that had been turned on kept ringing prompts, more than 20 missed call prompts and more than a dozen text message prompts.

Arthur had no choice but to say to Taylor: "Don't be angry yet, we'll talk about it later, I'll take care of the work first." ”

After Taylor glanced at Arthur, he didn't continue to be coquettish, but blinked a pair of big eyes and looked at Arthur who started to call back, with a serious and handsome side face and eyes full of sweetness.

While listening to the call from the mobile phone, Arthur glanced at Taylor, and saw her sweet and happy look, and couldn't help but feel a little helpless, this mildew who changed her boyfriend like changing clothes is now completely a pure girl who is in love and puts all her feelings on him, it is really very stressful!

"Hey, I'm Arthur Boleyn... The phone was connected, Arthur retracted his thoughts, and spoke directly, and then listened to Edward's happy and excited report in London, and the smile on Arthur's face became brighter and brighter, and his mouth couldn't close his smile.

"Haha, 200,000 registered users, this is really a super big surprise, this is really beyond the expectations of all of us... Today I'm going to have my PR agency start launching a campaign that would ideally break through one million registered users within a week. ”

Arthur smiled and narrowed his eyes, to be honest, he really didn't expect that the results would be so good, but it was also within his expectations, after all, the power of the celebrity effect has not been completely stimulated, as long as it is promoted, he believes that the photo wall APP will usher in a real explosive period.

"What? You mean, there's a studio in San Francisco that collided with our app idea? They want to meet me and talk?"

Hearing Edward's report, Arthur's face changed slightly, and he asked with a frown, he knew his own affairs, what was his idea, but what he didn't expect was that the owner would come to the door immediately.

"What do they mean? Are they questioning our creative plagiarism? Hehe, if that's the case, there's no need to meet with them, we're the first launchers, where is their product? It can't be blackmail, or take the opportunity to hype, right?

Even if we compete, we are not afraid, jokes, whoever laughs last will be able to laugh the best, and in the final analysis, we have to rely on strength to speak. ”