The Rise & Fall of Flappy Bird
FEB. 10, 2014 • The pride of Vietnam’s mobile app development scene, Nguyen Ha Dong, has removed his hugely popular Flappy Bird game from distribution. The free title was released last May and existed in relative obscurity until November when iOS downloads skyrocketed. Soon Flappy Bird was getting between 1 million and 2 million downloads a day on Apple’s App Store, and roared past 50 million. The Android version followed the iOS original on January .....