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Days after developer Tommy Refenes publicly lambasted the iTunes App Store for its lack of quality, Apple has removed Refenes’ novelty game Zits & Giggles from its app catalog.
Zits & Giggles — a game in which players pop virtual pimples — was originally priced at 99 cents when it launched in March. After sales tapered off, Refenes upped the price of his game to $15.
“The day I put it up to $15,” Refenes noted at last week’s Game Developers Conference, “three people bought it.”
Sales continued to roll in at $50, and then at $100. Refenes then raised the price after every recorded sale, eventually topping out at $399.99.
Apple offered no explanation for the app’s removal, and Refenes’ attempts to contact the company have received no response to date.
“They gave me no explanation at all as to why they took it down,” Refenes told consumer blog Kotaku. “I’m guessing they are mad that I said their store sucks and the iPhone is a Tiger handheld and they took it down.”
THIS guy IS mad.
Meh, I could care less about this guy. He really is an asshole and an idiot.
I agree with Stephen. I watched the entirety of his rant and he definitely came across as a douche.
I think it’s deserving of Apple to remove him off of the App Store and I also think it’s absolutely ridiculous for people to be pissed at Apple for running the App Store the way they do.
It’s their store and it’s a privilege to be able to sell your product it in.
All he’s really proven is that somewhere out there are easily-lead idiots with iphones, but that’s hardly breaking news.
Still … Apple cannot just remove apps from the app store just cause they were pissed off! They have to give a good reason for doing so.
What a prick. If you go around knocking on doors and try selling little old ladies $400 for a dish cloth, you can bet your ass trading standards will shut you down.
All Refenes has done is mark himself as a con artist, and a complete and utter tosser on top.
I don’t care how you rap it up (“I did it to prove a point”), a scam is a scam.
[...] game of this generation.” Days later, Refenes’s $400 joke app Zits & Giggles is removed from the App Store for unspecified reasons. Apple offers no explanation when [...]