Has it really been 8 days? Amazing! We should celebrate this arbitrary offset in time!
Just over a week ago I posted about a Cold Case-themed app on the Google Play store. It was an extremely poor quality looking word puzzle game. The given description was barely in English and a linked to video was not even related to the TV show beloved of our readers.
My intention in posting was to warn about the dangers of installing such applications on our mobilephones, which contain increasing amounts of personal information. When allowed to apps can access that data, post messages (which could incur charges) or be used in online attacks. How careful are we about that? As I said last week, there is a trick the less scrupulous use of releasing a harmless free app and then later an update which is far less benign. If you’re happy with v1 then why would you question ‘bug fix’ v1.01 update?
I tried to do all that without ridiculing those that, without any critical assessment, sought to encourage installing the app. Others had a different view on it.
Now the only thing notable about the app is its absence from the Google Play store. It ain’t there no more. I can’t remember the name of the developer but I’ve been unable to find any of the other apps they had listed so presumably they have all gone. Did they jump or were they pushed? We have no information to explain why the app was removed. Perhaps it was full of bugs that caused users problems. Maybe an attempted update included malicious code. Or it just violated the T&Cs. We’ll probably never know but someone’s done the right thing.
‘opefully no ‘arm was done. Copy that!
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