Flappy banned from app stores

It was just yesterday that I tallied up some of the best Flappy Bird clones out there – now after everything that has happened in the past two weeks with the surprise smash hit Flappy Bird, things are getting even worse.

Following a tidal wave of Flappy Bird clones, Google and Apple are now rejecting all apps with the word “Flappy” in their content.

This comes after a mobile game developer Ken Carpenter of Mind Juice Media said on Twitter that his game, Flappy Dragon, was rejected by the iTunes authorization process because the app’s name “attempts to leverage a popular app.”

His tweet was as follows:

Ken Carpenter Flappy Dragon tweet

Other mobile developers have reported that Google has joined the “anti-Flappy Bird regime” too. Happy Mage Games tweeted back at Ken Carpenter saying: “Sorry to hear that. Apparently the same is true for Google. Use of “Flappy” is now treated as Spam.”

Is this a smart move to stop developers from capitalising on other’s ideas? We all know how quickly games for IOS and Android are made now; should this be a normal procedure in the future? Let us know your thoughts in the comment below.