World War II and other historically based games remain in the store. “Enemies” within the context of a game cannot solely target a specific race, culture, real government, corporation, or any other real entity. Realistic portrayals of people or animals being killed, maimed, tortured, or abused, or content that encourages violence. With a strong emphasis placed on learning, rather than gameplay, further paired with the fact the app has been available for well over a year, it comes as a surprise that Apple chose to pull the plug here rather than giving Slitherine an outright rejection from the get-go. Slitherine, a small UK based game developer, specializes in accurate war simulation games. Previously: The Mojave Marzipan Apps, Is There Hope for the Mac App Store?.Įlectron Finder Keyboard Shortcuts Mac Mac App macOS 10.14 MojaveĪpple Removes Afghanistan ’11 From the App StoreĪpple has removed game developer Slitherine’s Afghanistan ’11 from the iOS App Store for using a “specific person or real entity” as the enemy of the game, even though it is touted as being entirely historically accurate in depicting the US war in Afghanistan. That’s a tragedy.ĭon’t miss his rant about Finder keyboard shortcuts in Mojave. Software no longer needs to be Mac-like to succeed on the Mac today. What the Mac market flatly rejected as un-Mac-like in 1996 was better than what the Mac market tolerates, seemingly happily, today. Google Docs on Chrome is an un-Mac-like word processor running inside an ever-more-un-Mac-like web browser. One could also argue that the worst thing that ever happened to the Mac was the iPhone.Īs un-Mac-like as Word 6 was, it was far more Mac-like then than Google Docs running inside a Chrome tab is today. ![]() A lot of newer Mac users either don’t know or don’t care about what makes for a good Mac app. The problem is, the users who really care about good native apps - users who know HIG violations when they see them, who care about performance, who care about Mac apps being right - were mostly already on the Mac. The more Mac users there are, the more Mac apps we should see. ![]() In theory, that should have been nothing but good news for the platform - more users means more attention from developers. In some ways, the worst thing that ever happened to the Mac is that it got so much more popular a decade ago.
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