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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.