<i>Your chance of death multiplied exponentially with each gate you passed.</i><p>Because math doesn't matter, but words are cool when you're a writer. Aaargh.<p>I'm no Flappy champion, but I'm pretty certain there is very little diffuculty-ramping. It's certainly not getting exponentially more difficult.
I've seen a lot of people comment that he's giving up $50,000 per day. As so many people already have the app (and it's not being deleted from their devices remotely) isn't he still going to be receiving that ad revenue, it just won't be increasing anymore? A cynic might say he announced the 24 hour deletion to get as many people as he could to download it, because even after it was deleted they would be playing the game and he would be earning.
I believe in what he said, like this guy did: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/02/11/the-bird-lord-speaks-why-we-should-believe-in-flappy-bird-creator-dong-nguyen/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/02/11/the-bird-l...</a><p>And as a Vietnamese, I can tell you that those f<i></i>king mass media in VN is totally ruining his life. I admire him so much for his zen-like life style.
This is another key weaknesss of the iphone.<p>I have it installed on my Android phone, but even if I didn't, I could download the .apk and install it (because nothing is ever gone on the internet), but you can't do that in a walled garden.
Please get over Flappy Birds as soon as possible. The lessons to learn are: simplicity in difficulty is key (see: The Impossible Game[1]), mobile game advertising has /horrible/ ROI, and the tech world is too easy to whip itself into a frenzy caused by its own feedback.<p>The only reason this is still a story (Flappy Bird pre-installed iPhones, knockoffs galore, etc) is because it's a story in itself. I feel really sorry for this guy.<p>[1]: <a href="http://flukedude.com/theimpossiblegame/" rel="nofollow">http://flukedude.com/theimpossiblegame/</a>
Except in my heart where it still flaps. And my phone where it's still installed. And as a weird internet ("mobile" = internet) historical relic, akin to crazy frog.
Flappy Bird is a fun game, but to me it also demonstrates how broken mobile advertising seems to be. He's generating revenue from ads that pop up at the top of the screen that quickly vanish on the next tap of your finger. How could any advertiser possibly hope to get any value out of what they paid to have that happen?