Flappy Bird to Return to the App Store

[mbp17xxx]

He will likely get to make the announcement on stage at WWDC, Phil would love the attention to the App Store.

I heard it will come as a built-in app in IOS8

 

[Squilly]

Greed. Flappy Bird was a fad imo. Won't be as popular when it comes back. All the interviews are are for publicity.

 

[iLuvMyMacToo]

So this guy BLATANTLY COPIES another game (Piou Piou) and manages to make some decent coin. Are we really going to call him a developer? This guy should be shunned. Why is this on the front page at all? Other than it being able to be played on iOS devices, how does it relate?

Perhaps the developer of Piou Piou is just waiting in the shadows for Flappy Bird to make a huge amount of money before he pounces with a billion dollar law suit.

Of course that means we'll have to endure Dong Nguyen stomping his feet and crying over every social network and news site that he was a victim of circumstance and he's going to run away somewhere until the whole thing blows over... oh hang on he already did that

 

[AFDoc]

Sooooo why is this such a huge story and why do people care?

Of course it will...

I'm growing tired of seeing this stupid story all the time. Wouldn't be such an issue if I didn't get MR push notifications...

And hopefully we won't read anymore about it here.

You know what else we need a break from? Talking about this game.

I'm getting really tired seeing Flappy Bird on the front page of macrumors. I thought iOS Blog was where stuff about iOS is posted.

Thank god I'm not the only one..... And this was just form the first page!

 

[penplotter]

Talking of stupid bird-related things... how utterly stupid do those Twitter name badges look

Dear Twitter, you are a gossip magnet, not a brand.

 

[ethanlee]

You can change your subscription preferences on the push page.

Hm, I missed this, thanks!

 

[Six8]

He has "fans"??

 

[penplotter]

He has "fans"??

The wings are the fans - don't get in a flap.

 

[MattSepeta]

The first part of your argument might be fair, but you shouldn't make light of other peoples' addictions just because you don't share their problems!

I'm not a gamer, and don't share their potential "video game addiction" problem either, but I don't pretend it isn't a real problem for at least some gamers.

Likewise, I've never struggled with an Alcohol addiction, and we all know that is a real struggle for some people.

Try to have at least some respect for the struggles that other people face, even when you clearly don't relate to the frustrations and consequences of those struggles.

Some people struggle with addictions to serious drugs. Others have difficulty avoiding the consumption of coffee, soda, chocolate, and dozens of other "little" things (like video games) that you might take for granted, because you don't see the world those people face through their eyes.

There is an entire world of revelation and understanding beyond yours.

You don't need to experience their addictions yourself to understand them (just as you don't need to touch fire to understand that it will burn you), but that understanding can come by listening humbly to their experiences.

Laughing at those addictions as if they aren't serious concerns to some people helps neither them nor you learn from those addiction experiences.

That's an awful lot of assumptions drawn from my one line quip. How's the view from up there?