I almost guessed the name of the company by looking at the headline, but I didn't know the background story and the structure of it. I had assumed the article was about Global Delight, an arm of Robosoft.
Global Delight seems to have been a bit disingenuous from the beginning. In 2009, it released an app called Voila, which was a straight out copy of Realmacsoftware's LittleSnapper. [1][2] When GlobalDelight started iOS apps, it copied Camera+ (made by tap tap tap - John Casasanta of MacHeist, Lisa Bettany and others) and released "Camera Plus" (this app was made the free app of the week this week). Why they had to also use a similar sounding makes me wonder if they really wanted to trick people and get some sales away from Camera+.
As for the Boom volume booster on the Mac, it has the same potential to damage your speakers as VLC could if you boost the volume beyond 100%. It's useful in certain cases, but I wouldn't recommend prolonged use of such apps. It's not like Apple and other notebook manufacturers (on the Windows PC side) and OS makers intentionally cap the volume output of the speakers for no good reason.
Overall, every time I hear the Global Delight name, I feel bad that the company could have been a lot more without having to plagiarize so much if it had wanted to.
[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20090708143947/http://www.realmac...
[2]: http://macheist.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=15395
Global Delight seems to have been a bit disingenuous from the beginning. In 2009, it released an app called Voila, which was a straight out copy of Realmacsoftware's LittleSnapper. [1][2] When GlobalDelight started iOS apps, it copied Camera+ (made by tap tap tap - John Casasanta of MacHeist, Lisa Bettany and others) and released "Camera Plus" (this app was made the free app of the week this week). Why they had to also use a similar sounding makes me wonder if they really wanted to trick people and get some sales away from Camera+.
As for the Boom volume booster on the Mac, it has the same potential to damage your speakers as VLC could if you boost the volume beyond 100%. It's useful in certain cases, but I wouldn't recommend prolonged use of such apps. It's not like Apple and other notebook manufacturers (on the Windows PC side) and OS makers intentionally cap the volume output of the speakers for no good reason.
Overall, every time I hear the Global Delight name, I feel bad that the company could have been a lot more without having to plagiarize so much if it had wanted to.
[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20090708143947/http://www.realmac...
[2]: http://macheist.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=15395