Lol, and as a Chinese person, I find your stupid “politically correct” pandering to be insulting in the extreme. What a joke.

Seriously, the interface is a rip-off. Deal with it.

I won’t use the product because of this fact *shrugs*, but I’m sure other people don’t care.

To me, it’s the point that not only do they rip it off, but they don’t give credit, or say “inspired by…”. If they were actually decent enough to do that, I wouldn’t see them in such a bad light.

Look, Chinese, particularly those from PRC have a slightly different perspective when it comes to these things. It’s partly that quite frankly, many of them don’t see it as wrong, and or they do, and couldn’t care less (unless you get caught, in which case it’s shameful). They’ll do anything to get ahead – and that’s probably partly a product of spending the last 400 years being backwards and behind, and ridiculed as being the weak men of the East. There’s some Chinese idiom about how when you’re poor, your morals are “short” – still, hopefully, as the situation improves, things will change.

However, you have to understand, with the cultural purges that happened under Mao’s regime, some (not all) Chinese may feel there’s some of a vacuum in terms of a moral compass. The Confucian ideals we originally subscribed to were purged – and it’s only recently that they’re back in “fashion”. Organised religion, like Christianity is opposed, on the grounds it could be a threat to the CCP.

So please, take your silly ignorant PC pandering elsewhere, and try to actually understand a little bit about the culture you’re self-righteously trying to defend.

Cheers,
Victor

I kind of understand the Chinese throwing people off (especially when the FAQ is all in Chinese…umm…), although it is kind of messed up to make a general statement about Chinese developers. I’ve worked in the web industry for awhile and yes there are some sketchy developers in China who basically mirror someone else’s site and add a different title bc they are lazy and cheap and they have no concept of intellectual property, but not all are like that.

currently, as opposed to a few months ago, their site looks horrible. Looks like its in the mid-stages of a revamp and the UX flow doesn’t make sense to me, not professional at all. And I’ve tried to look for a way to cancel my account, no luck yet.

I would look for other options, this may be an app for Chinese-speaking areas

Doit.im is a superb application, I also own ‘Things’ and it never even occured to me the two are similar.

That said, it doesn’t take much to understand if you are designing an app based on GTD with modern standards and a minimal interface, one that focuses on getting your ideas and tasks out of your head and recorded as quickly as possible, it follows that of course various interface elements will be similar.

This doesn’t constitute ‘ripping something off’, though.

God you Americans (and now I’m referring to the commenters on this article) can be so damned America-centric when it comes to the supremacy of the English language. And you didn’t even invent English! Ha!