iMame app pulled from iOS App Store after a few short days of freedom

@Siphillis

App Store is a quiet, well-behaved suburb, while Android are the mountains of Afghanistan.

@Shadowbender
More like the sewers of that iOS suburb. We get their shit and whenever we get what they have, generally it's more dirty.

@Shadowbender

It's a police state.

@Vidaluko You don't even have to look at illicit use of ROMs. Just the fact that you could load your own ROMs makes it a violation of the iOS agreement because you could write code to run on the emulator without being a licensed iPhone developer. In fact, this thing would have been less of a violation of the iOS rules if it only allowed you to play built-in, unlicensed MAME ROMs.

iOS is a really restrictive platform and people don't notice it as much because Apple let up on their most egregrious things (like trying to force everyone to program stuff in C to kill the headwind of Flash CS5). It's still restrictive for anything that isn't a single-purpose, self-contained workflow that does not need to interact with other applications or rely on long term data storage. It's still a freedom-hating platform, they just backed off enough for people to forget the days of banning Twitter clients because the trending topic had a curse word in it.

@CaramelZappa
Though I am pretty jealous that iOS users get Infinity Blade.

@MacMog
Meanwhile the Android market has plenty of emulators and nothing comes of it ever. By your logic Apple should pull iTunes because it allows people to violate copyright by putting pirated mp3s on their ipod.

Just because no one has sued yet doesn't mean that it doesn't open them up for the liability of it. Also android is more open sourced. Meaning that there isn't someone presiding over what is and isn't aloud on the platform. While iOS is completely controlled by Apple and is only run on apple devices making them more subseptible to suits. They have to oversite and control that should reduce piracy on their platform, if they don't use it it only looks bad on them.

@uncolober ah you see that is why android lets you have the choice to use a bluetooth controller so you don't have to put up with touchscreen controls ;)

@(Unverified)
Thankfully, buying a controller for your cellphone isn't at all ridiculous! ...WAIT