The Windows Phone Store has seen its fair share of challenges over the years. We have seen cookie cutter or spam apps, misleading apps, update failures and issues with developer revenues all surface. While Microsoft has done a decent job of responding to these matters, one problem continues to plague the Store - cloned or copied apps. It is not a new issue or one unique to the Windows Phone Store but one that Microsoft needs to get control of better.

Understand that when I refer to copied apps and games I am not talking about games with the same concept. We have a bazillion match-three games available in the Store with many sharing similar designs, but I don't consider them copies. The clones are those games or apps that simply lift the code from one title, slap on a new title and submit it for publication. Best VPN providers 2020: Learn about ExpressVPN, NordVPN & more It isn't a problem unique to the Windows Phone Store or one that is new, but it seems to have gotten worse.