Tinder | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 27 May 2016 11:14:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Tinder | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Tinder wants monopoly on hook ups, sues rival app 3nder https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/apps-software/jon-martindale/tinder-wants-monopoly-on-hook-ups-sues-rival-app-3nder/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/apps-software/jon-martindale/tinder-wants-monopoly-on-hook-ups-sues-rival-app-3nder/#respond Fri, 27 May 2016 10:06:48 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=294110 Two is company, but three's a crowd according to dating/hook-up app Tinder, as it's going after rival smartphone application owners 3nder, which is designed to help those looking to hang out with more than just one person. It's using trademark law to do it too, claiming that the names are too similar and could cause …

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Two is company, but three's a crowd according to dating/hook-up app Tinder, as it's going after rival smartphone application owners 3nder, which is designed to help those looking to hang out with more than just one person. It's using trademark law to do it too, claiming that the names are too similar and could cause confusion.

While there is an obvious similarity between the names, 3nder disagrees with Tinder's claims that the names are too similar to coexist. Indeed it plans to fight the legal action, with founder of the eight-person company, Dimo Trifonov, accusing Tinder of levying a “nuclear weapon,” against his small firm.

However he has no allusions of the giant he's facing. Tinder's parent company, InteractiveCorp, has a valuation of more than $2 billion, so Trifonov says he's aware that this could lead to the bankruptcy of his firm.

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3nder is currently only available on iOS, but has an Android app coming soon

In the legal action Tinder cites the pronunciation of the rival service as problematic, since it could be said “Thrinder,” which is very close to Tinder in sound and could be easily confused, it argues. It demands that 3nder shut down its website and stop using the name on all official media.

Although 3nder will no doubt have to face off against Tinder lawyers at some point, for now Trifonov is encouraging his userbase to let Tinder know how they feel, by sending the company pictures of its socks, hashtagging the images with #TinderSuckMySocks.

He has some strong ideas for a legal defence though. He points out in a chat with The Guardian that Grindr, the gay dating app, was around before Tinder appeared, suggesting that the latter may have borrowed its naming scheme from another app any way.

“The whole thing is unfair … can I trademark the word coffee and then sue every coffee shop in the world?” he said.

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KitGuru Says: Although you can certainly see what Tinder is getting at with its legal action, it does seem hypocritical since it clearly took inspiration for its name from other already existing apps.

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Tinder rejects claims that only 58 per cent of users are single https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/apps-software/jon-martindale/tinder-rejects-claims-that-only-58-per-cent-of-users-are-single/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/apps-software/jon-martindale/tinder-rejects-claims-that-only-58-per-cent-of-users-are-single/#comments Fri, 08 May 2015 10:19:35 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=248563 Tinder, the application and service that is designed to help people hook up for relatively anonymous… hang outs, has hit back at research that suggested over 40 per cent of its users were either married or already in relationships, by pointing to the small size of the sample used and suggestions that since its users …

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Tinder, the application and service that is designed to help people hook up for relatively anonymous… hang outs, has hit back at research that suggested over 40 per cent of its users were either married or already in relationships, by pointing to the small size of the sample used and suggestions that since its users are young, they couldn't all be married.

Recently research from GlobalWebIndex suggested that as many as 42 per cent of Tinder's day to day users had partners of some kind, however Tinder rejects this. It cites the fact that the number of people quizzed was “tiny,” with just 681 people asked about their relationship status. On top of that, it pointed out that with most of its users aged under 25 years old, an age group where more than 90 per cent are unmarried, there was no way the data could be accurate.

“The single largest age group on Tinder, making up more than half of our entire user base, is 18-24. More than 93% of UK residents in that age range have never been married, according to the UK’s office of National Statistics,” it said in a statement (via Guardian). “Without revealing any data about our users, simple logic should reveal that it’s essentially impossible for any of these claims to be accurate. Their methodology seems severely and fundamentally flawed.”

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GWI's research disagrees with those estimates however, and puts the per centage of Tinder's user based aged 16 to 24 at around 38 per cent, with a larger 45 per cent aged between 25 and 34.

Considering the results from both parties here are contradictory, it's difficult to guess which is most likely to be correct, though presumably it's somewhere in the middle. Even if GWI's research is partly true however, it suggests that a lot of people using Tinder are indeed already engaged in some form of relationship, despite what they might claim.

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KitGuru Says: Have any of you guys found much success with Tinder? Friends of mine have had rather mixed results. 

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