Apple and Google reportedly have cracked down on apps that appear to be trying to capitalize on the "Flappy Bird" phenomenon, the addictive game that was removed from app stores earlier this month.

Tracking data for the latest clones (of which there are hundreds, if not thousands) they found that on average, there were sixty Flappy Bird clones a day uploaded to Apple's iOS app store. That's ...

As this is new ground for Apple and Google to cover with clones having been widely available on their services in the past, developers such as Carpenter are crying foul, ...

Apple’s change comes after many ChatGPT clones flooded the App Store (and Play Store) earlier this year. But this is not an isolated incident. In previous years, games like Wordle , Unpacking ...

Every time Apple's developer conference rolls around we get a smattering of changes to the App Store Review guidelines. This corpus of rules can be, in turns, opaque and explicit, and has caused a ...

Even though clones made it to both app stores in the past days, it looks like developers that are trying to have their new clones approved are unable to publish their Flappy Bird versions.

According to ZEDGE, more than 800 Flappy Bird clones exist, ... Apple and Google began rejecting games with “Flappy” in the title and removing them, but it may be too little, too late.