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I think to myself that I definitely wouldn't have, and that I would have weather the storm of the press outside my house, and just focused on that great payday

• acchow 13y ago
  A software developer/entrepreneur is not a rock star. The paparazzi will disappear and the game be forgotten in a few weeks.
  • mikeash 13y ago
    What made his move puzzling wasn't that he didn't like the attention (I totally get that) but that it seemed obvious that pulling the app would make it worse, not better.
    • deletes 13y ago
      Maybe it was worse for a short time, but if the app was still available the craze might still be active, or not, you just can't be sure of that. By removing it he dictated his own terms.
  • SyneRyder 13y ago
    And yet, here we are a few weeks later, and he's in Rolling Stone magazine. The game hasn't been forgotten. He had the #1 game on the iTunes App Store charts, the same store where people now buy music by rock stars. I wouldn't dismiss the comparison too quickly.
  • 72deluxe 13y ago
    Come to think of it, name any recent rock stars... anyone? I can only think of people outside the last 10 years... It seems you can just as easily be forgotten as a rock star.
• chc 13y ago
  With millions of dollars, you can just get stuff delivered to you for a couple of weeks until the press sees something else shiny. I've been straight-up bedridden for longer than he lasted under the attention of the press, and there is no way it's more restrictive than that. The guy's choice was his to make, but I do not buy that he had no choice.