Michal Marek ʻOiai ʻo ka hapa nui o nā loaʻa i lawe ʻia e nā ʻoihana nui e ʻike koke ʻia, e ʻike mau ana ka media e pili ana i ke kūʻai ʻana i kahi ʻoihana liʻiliʻi me ka lohi o kekahi mau mahina a i ʻole mau makahiki. ʻO ka hiʻohiʻona hou loa o ia ʻano hiʻohiʻona ka loaʻa ʻana o Ottocat e Apple, e like me ka server. TechCrunch ua kūʻai mua ʻia ma 2013. Eia kekahi, ʻaʻole ia he loaʻa ʻole. Ua ʻōlelo ʻia ʻo Ottocat hoʻomaka liʻiliʻi ma hope o ka hana "Explore" a mākou i ʻike ai mai ka App Store.
He hui liʻiliʻi ʻo Ottocat i ka ʻenehana hulina, a ʻoiai ʻaʻohe ʻike kūhelu i neʻe aku kāna poʻe limahana, me ko lākou ʻike, i Apple, ua loaʻa ʻo TechCrunch i kekahi mau hōʻailona koʻikoʻi i hana ʻia. ʻO Ottocat co-founder Edwin Cooper ka mea kākau patent i kapa ʻia "System and Method for Divisive Textual Clustering by Label Selection using Variant-Weighted TFDIF", i hāʻawi ʻia iā Apple.
Ma waho aʻe o ka manaʻo o ka palapala patent pono'ī e hōʻike ana ʻo Apple ka mea hana ʻo Edwin Cooper, kākoʻo ʻia ka manaʻo e pili ana i ka loaʻa ʻana o Ottocat e nā ʻike o ka patent. ʻOiaʻiʻo, hiki ke maʻalahi i ka hana "Explore", e hiki ai i nā mea hoʻohana ke ʻike i nā noi mai nā ʻāpana like ʻole e pili ana i ko lākou wahi o kēia manawa.
Kākoʻo ʻia kēia manaʻo e ka ʻike i loaʻa e pili ana i ka hui Ottocat. Ke hana nei ʻo ia i kahi hoʻonā e hiki ai i ia mea. Ua ʻōlelo ʻia ʻo Edwin Cooper a me kāna hui e hana ana i ka ʻenehana e ʻimi i nā polokalamu ma ka ʻāpana a ma muli o ka wahi me ka ʻole o ka mea hoʻohana e ʻike pololei i ka app a lākou e ʻimi nei. A ʻo ia ka mea i hāʻawi ʻia e ka hiʻohiʻona "Explore" ma ka App Store.
Ua iho ka pūnaewele o Ottocat i ʻOkakopa 2013, ʻo TechCrunch i manaʻo ai i ka wā i loaʻa ai ka loaʻa. ʻO ka memo kuhi mua ma kēia pūnaewele i ʻōlelo ʻia "ʻAʻole loaʻa ʻo Ottocat". Akā i kēia manawa ʻaʻole hana hou ka ʻaoʻao a "kuli" loa. Ua hoʻolauna ʻia ka hiʻohiʻona "Explore" e Apple ma ke ʻano he mea hoʻonui i ka App Store ma Iune 2014.
