Anti-iPhone game pulled from Apple’s app store
Phone Story, an iPhone game which blatantly attacked Apple and the iPhone, has been pulled from Apple’s app store after being available for official download for over seven hours.
Produced by Italian software firm, Molleindustria, whose modus operandi is “radical games against the dictatorship of entertainment”, it featured a number of controversial mini games.
Amongst them was a suicide game in which players attempt to catch jumping Foxconn workers from the suppliers Chinese factory and a scenario where gamers must forcibly co-opt miners to mine Coltan.
Other pastimes that are unlikely to appeal to Steve jobs are an eWaste sub-game where workers break down redundant electrical components in a poor health & safety environment and a challenge to shoe horn as many people as possible into an Apple store ahead of a new release.
In pulling the app Apple cited its depictions of violence and objectionable content.