iGBA’s life on the App Store was short-lived: the Game Boy Advance emulator was approved by Apple a few days ago but in the last few hours it was removed from the marketplace because the application allegedly violated the guidelines related to spam and copyright.
iGBA has made headlines as the first console emulator officially released on the App Store, approved by Apple following the new guidelines on free competition that came into force in recent weeks. The application immediately achieved great success, reaching the top of the ranking of the most downloaded free apps over the weekend, surprisingly, however, it was removed and is now no longer available for download.
Apparently iGBA was effectively a rip-off of GBA4iOS, a fairly successful open source emulator. However, the author of GBA4iOS said he was amazed that Apple had tried an app of this kind full of advertising and tracking cookies that apparently wasn’t entirely regular.
Actually it is unclear whether this is the reason that led to the removal of iGBA from the App Store or whether behind this move there are actually other problems or reasons not disclosed by Apple. However, when it comes to video game emulators, laws on copyright and trademark protection also come into force, banally even the mere use of the GBA name could represent a problem if the trademark were to be protected and registered by the rights holder.
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