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Zynga sues sex app maker.
« on: July 31, 2013, 05:26:08 PM »
The full title from BBC is:
Zynga sues sex app maker over Bang With Friends name
Ar first I thought this was a British joke. It was not.
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The app, which launched in January, alerts Facebook friends who express mutual interest in a *censored* encounter.
Bang With Friends Inc says it has more than a million registered users
Zynga, which owns games Words With Friends and Chess With Friends, has filed court papers in San Francisco complaining of trademark infringement.
Apple removed it.
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The Bang With Friends app was removed from the Apple app store a week after it was initially listed in May but it is still available for Android devices via Google Play.
Apple had pulled the app on the grounds of "offensive content", Bang With Friends Inc chief executive Colin Hodges said in an interview with
Full BBC story.
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Re: Zynga sues sex app maker.
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2013, 10:10:43 PM »
Cracked.com gave a few apps like that a good verbal beatdown.
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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Re: Zynga sues sex app maker.
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2013, 01:45:03 AM »
What next?

Zynga continue to serve no useful purpose, continue to sue people, and Apple continue to remove apps.  That's what's next, at a guess.

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Re: Zynga sues sex app maker.
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2013, 06:56:15 AM »
Zynga continue to serve no useful purpose, continue to sue people, and Apple continue to remove apps.  That's what's next, at a guess.

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Re: Zynga sues sex app maker.
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2013, 07:37:14 AM »
"Bang With Friends Inc chief executive Colin Hodges"

Let me get this straight.

The company is literally called, "Bang With Friends Incorporated"

Apps are already a bit of a industry niche, even though it's growing, but that's sort of naming yourself into a single application. That's the equivalent of a company calling themselves "Slightly fatigued Metal Beams Incorporated"

Though of course in this case it's also funny because they named themselves after a stupid application with an equally stupid name.
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.