Friday, September 16, 2011

Apple iPhone game critical banned from the App Store

Apple iPhone game critical banned from the App Store


Phone Story denounces the cynical product performance in the mobile
phone manufacturing.

The Italian-based developer Molleindustria takes its games like
excesses of capitalism and the church targeted. His mini-games address
the machinations of the oil-and fast-food industry, child abuse in the
church and conspiracies against Wikileaks. But most attention was the
latest production Phone story because she was exiled from Apple after a
few hours from the App Store again.

"Let me tell you the story of this phone, while I Provide you with
quality entertainment," begins the educational mini-game collection. She
wants to lead the smartphone owners in mind, was produced under what
conditions his cell phone. In the first level the player needs children
in the mines of Congo drive to work, to dig the ore coltan. Then there
is an allusion to the suicide series at Foxconn continues to be China,
where the player working with suicidal leap from a factory building
field. The cynical commentary explains that the company does not improve
as the inhuman working conditions, but had installed safety nets, so the
workers no longer jump off the premises.

In the third level, the player's mobile phones to sell onrushing
customers. "We've spent a lot of money to stimulate demand, the desire
for status, individuality and lifestyle," says the voiceover. Finally,
the smartphone will be disposed of because a new model comes onto the
market. It produces "highly toxic waste," which must sort out the
players from a conveyor belt.

In arguing that the Molleindustria received from Apple to banishment
from the App Store, it says that the game would violate the terms and
conditions. So full were forbidden to show the "violence or child abuse"
and "false, deceptive or misleading representations." Moreover, it is
not permitted fee-based programs, to collect donations. Molle Industria,
however, had just announced plans to donate his share of 70 percent from
the App sales to organizations working for the rights of workers. About
the background of mobile phone production Molleindustria informed
Meanwhile on his website.

After the expulsion from the App Store program is now available for 73
cents on the Android Market. In an interview with U.S. magazine
Gamasutra criticized Molleindustria developer Paolo Pedercini Apple's
business practices. He think it is essentially important to be able to
publish criticism of a platform on the platform itself. Phone Story not
violate Apple's terms and conditions. The aim was to plant with plenty
of "black humor", an "ugly dwarf" in Apple's "walled garden". "For Apple
apps are not cultural goods such as books or music," shows itself
Pedercini consternation. "What kind of reaction would cause Apple if it
would banish all unwanted books or songs from the iTunes Store?"
Ultimately, however Molleindustria benefited from the expulsion: Phone
story would have otherwise attracted little such attention.

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