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On Saturday 10 September, Paolo Perdercini turned the game “Phone Story” in the App Store. This deals with the production process of iPhones and the negative impacts on the environment and workers. Only to 14 September, the company suffered a 99 cents expensive game, then he removed it from the online shop.

“Phone Story” revolves around the production cycle of an iPhone, starting in the mines of Africa, won in which the metal is coltan from which the chips are made for smartphones. This applies of course in reality not only for Apple, but for all manufacturers. Then the game the manufacture of the devices covered in the factories like Foxconn. In this regard, Apple came under criticism many times before.

Mission ‘Phone Story’ Game: Catch the Suicide Man

Reports of the BLN blogs illustrate that it is in the game, for example, to absorb the emissions workers at Foxconn who commit suicide. Perdercini, developer of the game and art professor at Carnegie Mellon University, had planned all revenue from the App Store to donate to social organizations working against the ills of the Apple-production process.

Compared to the New York Times, he explained that he wanted to drink a toast with “phone story” a discussion about the excesses of the mobile phone use, but it would now be more concerned with “market censorship”. Perdercini campaigned for his game with the slogan “the anti-iPhone game for the iPhone” on Twitter, read where to three hours later from Apple was that the software was taken from the range. This is a spokesperson confirmed to the American daily newspaper.

‘Phone Story’ Game In Android?

As a basic violation of the developer guidelines specified. Closer to the company is not paid on the ‘Phone Story. ” Compared to the Apple developer himself said that it will remove all the apps, which are objectionable content or the abuse of children would. Moreover, it is not allowed to collect donations in this way. Perdercini wants to bring the game now for Android phones.