Christ in the App Store
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Flappy Bird, originally released in May, became the top free iPhone app mid-January. However, in an unforeseen turn of events, its creator, Don Nguyen, took the app off the store yesterday. According to CNN, the game had an average four-star rating from more than 543,000 reviews in the Apple App Store and 228,000 on Android.
For those of you who didn’t get to experience the maddening addiction of Flappy Bird, the object is to tap the screen to bounce an odd-looking yellow bird through the air without hitting the pipes or the ground. Sound simple? It should, with all logic, be. But Flappy Bird defied logic and became the most frustratingly obsessive game on the app store.
On the iPhone, my high score was 1 but on the iPad, I reached a whopping 5. Most of the addiction comes from that part of your brain where you know – you just know – that you can do better. So you play just one more game … just one more game … just one more game …
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