{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_ceh5eb47rc6wo3whzbzq","title":"Muse, Instagram, and VLC Lookalike Rip-Offs in the Mac App Store","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/muse-instagram-and-vlc-lookalike-rip-offs-in-the-mac-app-store-ceh5eb47rc","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_ceh5eb47rc6wo3whzbzq","seq":519626,"kind":"article","title":"Muse, Instagram, and VLC Lookalike Rip-Offs in the Mac App Store","url":"https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/8.html","summary":"Jeff Johnson: In other words, Muse AI is a blatant copy of Muse from Meta, the latter of which is currently the #1 iOS App Store download in the United States. I don’t know where Muse AI ranks in the iOS App Store, but I do know that it’s currently the #20 Mac App Store download in the US. It wasn’t languishing in obscurity — it had risen to #20 in the Mac App Store. A lot of Mac users are very confused when they’re told that Mac apps are available but they’re not in the Mac…","published":"2026-09-28T19:50:19Z","seen":"2026-09-28T20:46:35Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-daringfireball-net-c6fdb2","name":"daringfireball.net","domain":"daringfireball.net","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q119789025","name":"Daring Fireball","type":"website","designations":["blog","production company"]}},"via":"kite-daringfireball-net-c6fdb2","topics":["apple"],"authors":["John Gruber"],"entities":[{"id":"Q209330","name":"Instagram","type":"other"},{"id":"Q20455825","name":"Valencia Airport","type":"other"}],"story":"st_ceh5eb47rc6wo3whzbzq","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.6000000238418579,"category2":"arts-culture-entertainment","sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.11999999731779099,"political":0.009999999776482582}]}