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Apple Boots Bang With Friends From The App Store

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36 pointssuyash_k17 comments

Based on the recent news about Cupid With Friends, I would not be surprised if Zynga claimed trademark infringement on Bang With Friends.

I think it was trademark infringement, since other apps, like Tinder have been allowed.

Bang with friends seems crass... Not to mention randomly fucking your friends is usually a stupid idea. It makes social relationships awkward and complicated.

The primary users of the app were likely the type of people who have 500+ "friends" on Facebook.

If they still manage to complicate all their relationships, well, what a terrible problem to have.

I wasn't aware it was random – I thought some communication/negotiation was required. How advanced is this technology?

IIRC from reading about it, you just tick a checkbox next to all of the friends you'd like to bang; if one of them is using the app and ticks your as well then you're both sent a message. Presumably then a really awkward conversation occurs.

Also I don't think the kind of people who use an app like this are going to be aware of the fact that banging friends leads to less friends and weirder connections.

And here's why you should exercise caution in signing up for services using Facebook Connect:

https://www.facebook.com/browse/friends_using_app/?app_id=17...

I don't use ios for couple of years now, can anyone tell me what happens to apps installed in user's device once its removed from the app store?

As a matter of fact, I don't know what happens when an app gets removed from play store either, does it happen often, what happens to the installed apps?

It still runs fine, but you cannot obviously reinstall it

Thanks! That makes sense, I would be pretty pissed if they removed apps from user devices too without their consent.

Both iOS and Android have app kill switches.

Probably not the best links but ...

http://www.macworld.com/article/1134930/iphone_killswitch.ht...

http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php/android-has-ap...

> but you cannot obviously reinstall it

From the App Store, no, but from your iTunes backups you can. All you need is the .ipa backup file associated with a purchase under your Apple ID.

I've got this for several apps (iMAME and Gridlee, to name two) that Apple's done similar to.

so upon further thought, if Zynga could trademark apps with the phrase "with friends", could someone like Marco Arment have trademarked apps that start with "insta-"?

There is a huge risk when you develop an app on top of Android /iOS/Facebook.

One day they can shut you down...

That's 2/3 correct ...

They had a bang with Apple, but she was disappointed afterwards

You made me laugh... Putting just a ':D' in here made my Karma fall to -2 :(

WTH ?!

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