Banned iPhone anti-consumerist indie title Phone Story now available on Android Market
Buy one, get one guilt-free
Molleindustria isn't exactly one of those developers who likes to shy away from controversial and oft-difficult subjects about modern life.
Its Flash title for PC McDonald’s Video Game explored the darker side of global corporatism (with cartoon graphics), while Operation: Pedopriest’s topic is fairly self-explanatory.
Earlier this week, Molleindustria found its latest title Phone Story had fallen foul of the Apple censors a few hours after going live due to ‘excessively objectionable or crude content’ and ‘violence or abuse of children’ (thanks, The Guardian).
All of which was deliciously ironic, since it’s an app that sets out to show, in satirical fashion, the abuse and hardship suffered creating electronic products such as, say, an Apple smartphone: starting from Coltan extraction in the Congo right through to the suicides at the Foxconn factories in China.
The controversial title is now available for Android smartphones for £0.63 [link], and any revenue generated will apparently be donated to “organizations working to solve the issues mentioned in this game”, according to the app description.
