Tris Pulled from iPhone App Store • Hacker News Board

Re: Tris Pulled from iPhone App Store

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Post by axod » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 8:04 PM UTC

sysop073 wrote: post #9

I can't believe the Tetris company actually cares that people clone Tetris. It's the cloned game, there must be 10000 different clones out for every platform in existence

Sure but they might want to release a paid for version for the iPhone. It's a different ball game.

No one in their right mind is going to pay for a tetris game for the PC, but I can see a ton of people paying money for an official tetris game on the iPhone.

If you're going to copy an existing game like tetris/scrabble/etc, you're going to attract trouble.

Re: Tris Pulled from iPhone App Store

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Post by cstejerean » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 9:58 PM UTC

ashu wrote: post #7

I think the real reason why Apple has kept such tight control over the App Store has nothing to do with the applications or quality, at all. It has to do with iTunes and music locking. If you opened up the device, it's only time before a variety of media players and mp3 syncing mechanisms will appear -- all without DRM, of course and without the restrictions (only sync with one device, etc. etc.) And that is what App…

People keep thinking that Apple actually wants DRM or most of the restrictions that come with iTunes. I'm 99% sure it has more to do with the restrictions the music labels impose when licensing the music to them (that's for example why you can get Apps over 3G but not music).

Re: Tris Pulled from iPhone App Store

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Post by ashu » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 10:38 PM UTC

cstejerean wrote: post #12

ashu wrote: post #7

I think the real reason why Apple has kept such tight control over the App Store has nothing to do with the applications or quality, at all. It has to do with iTunes and music locking. If you opened up the device, it's only time before a variety of media players and mp3 syncing mechanisms will appear -- all without DRM, of course and without the restrictions (only sync with one device, etc. etc.) And that is what App…

People keep thinking that Apple actually wants DRM or most of the restrictions that come with iTunes. I'm 99% sure it has more to do with the restrictions the music labels impose when licensing the music to them (that's for example why you can get Apps over 3G but not music).

I agree. But regardless of whether it is Apple or the music labels that are pushing it, it could explain the weird-ass closed format of the app-store.