Seriously, enough with the iPhone clones already. Only last weekend we wrote about the blatant ripping-off of IronHide's flash game Clash of the Olympians by iPhone game Achilles' Defense, and the latter game has since been removed from the App Store.
But now, after the Canabalt devs released their source code under an MIT open source license late last year, another Thai company called PLD Soft has released a clone called Free Running that just got approved by Apple. It was free about an hour ago, and has since been raised to $0.99. Are you kidding me?
Come on now Apple, get your act together. Because any time you're going to say "we have a better marketplace for game developers than Android" in the future, it's just going to look like a joke.
Apple approves Canabalt clone [TUAW via Cult of Mac] [Thanks Ross!]
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3:40 PM on 05.05.2011 | 
But isn't "any time you're going to say 'we have a better marketplace for game developers than Android' in the future, it's just going to look like a joke" a little drama-queenish? Are you saying there are no game rip-offs on Android? Or that the iOS store has more of them?
I'd mull that one over a bit.
After a few days it will be taken off.
As for the people who ripped off the original, I say we give the Canabalt dev's a plane ticket to Thailand to beat some ass.
I don't see why you're complaining Maurice, Rev clearly liked it....
People hate to admit it, but even successful iOS games are often clones.
"Free Runner began as a 5-week experimental game for the Kyles' Experimental Gameplay Project." blablabla "The original Flash Game is available for free online at http://www.adamatomic.com."
Worst part:
"Nash ported Free Runner to the iPhone the following week. Free Runner was developed and published independently for the iPhone by Nash and Adam Lambert under their PLD Soft imprint"
What.