‘Flappy Bird’ Grounded as Vietnamese Developer Pulls Plug on App
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The Hanoi developer who removed his “Flappy Bird” game from app stores after becoming a global sensation and earning as much as $50,000 a day experienced the kind of success few individual programmers encounter.
Nguyen Ha Dong, creator of the difficult game with a simple design that shot to the top of the most-popular download rankings, removed “Flappy Bird” from Apple Inc. and Google Inc. online stores this past weekend. He said in a Twitter Inc. message that the game “ruins my simple life.”