PhoneSaber was forced out of the App Store because of copyright infringement. THQ Wireless, copyright owner of all Star War games for mobile phone has given a go ahead gesture to Pocket Gamer to deploy PhoneSaber back on the App Store with a slight change of the name, “Phone Saber Unleasehed.”
The application was not that popular, but the controversy has somehow made it famous. We feel happy for the developer and for us time to swing our iPhones to hear the clanking and swooshing sound of the light sword.
Seriously, is this application also not like the Slasher removed for being Read More...
App Store visitors were eagerly waiting for the launch of Murderdrome to experience the first feel of reading comic books on the iPhone and iPod touch. However, to the dismay of many iPhone users, the comic book application was rejected possibly for being too violent to the eyes.
Here is what Apple said about the rejection:
Murderdrome cannot be posted to the App Store because it contains content that does not comply with Community Standards" and "Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials Read More...
Removing and restoring of applications on the App Store is an old story, but we are still trying to figure our exactly why apps are removed or restored. Keeping track of disappearance of Apps, here we give you the master list of removed and restored applications.
I Am Rich: This application was retailed at $999.99 and did nothing. The developer just made a cool $6000 in one day and the app vanished from the App Store after purloining 8 rich iPhone users, at least one whom purchased the app by mistake. The application displayed a red glowing gemstone a kind of Read More...
It was neither funny nor entertaining to make stabbing motion holding the iPhone to hear horror sound. This is exactly what the application Slasher did when you opened it--displaying a nasty, sharp kitchen knife. Many residents and iPhone owners in Britian cried foul to Apple for deploying an App that indirectly promotes violence.
Slasher was there in the Entertainment category, but it has been taken down now. Apple has no explanation why/how the application landed in the App Store in the first place. The application made many Britons worried in view of the rising stabbing crime in Britain. For many, it caused considerable Read More...
