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Flappy Bird is Officially Dead Due to New iOS Update

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Remember Flappy Bird? When it was first released in 2013, it quickly became one of the biggest mobile games, due largely to popular YouTubers, such as PewDiePie, playing and getting frustrated with it. In less than a year, the app had been downloaded more than fifty million times, shooting developer Dong Nguyen to unforeseen success and wealth. The newfound fame was apparently too much for Nguyen, however, and he had the game removed from the App Store in February of 2014.

Despite its removal from digital retailers, those who already owned the Flappy Bird app were able to hold onto it on their phones. New phone updates meant that the game was constantly becoming outdated, but many were able to use backdoor means to keep playing it. It appears, however, that those days are over and now players will have to choose between continuing to play the game or updating their phones.

According to Polygon, the new iOS 11 operating system does not support 32-bit games like Flappy Bird. Attempting to play the game with iOS 11 will simply prompt the message, “The developer of this app needs to update it to work with iOS 11.” Nguyen has stated, to no one’s surprise, that he will not be updating the game, meaning those who choose to update their phones to iOS 11 will be unable to play the game henceforth.

While I’m sure there will continue to be people who simply don’t update their phones so they can keep playing the game, it seems that this update truly marks the end of an era. Good night, sweet prince.


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Dylan Siegler
Dylan Siegler has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Redlands. He has copy edited novels and short stories and is the editor of nearly all marketing materials for RoKo Marketing. In addition to his professional work, Dylan is also working on several of his own projects. Some of these projects include a novel that satirizes the very nature of novel writing as an art and a short film that parodies buddy cop movies. His short story “Day 3658,” a look into a future ten years into a zombie apocalypse, is being published in September of 2017 in Microcosm Publishing’s compilation Bikes in Space IV: Biketopia. His political satire "The Devil's Advocates" is currently available for free (the link to this story can be found on his Facebook page).