Thread: Apple rejects iPhone illegal alien smuggling game

Published: April 28, 2011
Updated: 1:47 p.m.

Apple rejects iPhone illegal immigrant smuggling game

By CINDY CARCAMO

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Apple turned down an online game that allows players to drive a rickety-looking truck through what resembles a desert border in an attempt to smuggle people illegally into the United States.

The Apple App Store rejected the game "Smuggle Truck," the game's developer told the Associated Press Thursday.

"Smuggle Truck," an online game, allows players to drive a rickety truck through what resembles the U.S-Mexican border, over cliffs, mountains, dead animals and even babies.

COURTESY OWLCHEMY LABS/ TEXT BY CINDY CARCAMO

Developer Alex Schwartz of Owlchemy Labs, a Boston-based company, told the Associated Press that he "couldn't give details on the rejection but said it was content related," the story said.

Schwartz had called the game an "interactive satire."

However, the mobile application, which calculates scores by the number of immigrants helped crossing the U.S. border, drew the ire of immigration activists who call it inappropriate and said it trivializes the dangerous reality of those crossing the border.

Watch a video trailer of the game.

In an earlier story published by The Orange County Register, Jorge-Mario Cabrera, spokesman for Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, blasted the game.

"This game mocks the human tragedy that represents undocumented migration. Dying at the border is not a game," Cabrera said. "Leaving your land and your family behind in search of a better life is not a game."

Smuggle truck can still be downloaded on PCs and Macs and includes a "legal mode" that portrays immigrants sitting in a waiting room for two decades, according to a USA Today story.

Read more about the story in PCMag.com, FOXnews.com, USA Today, and The Associated Press.

Contact the writer: 714-796-7924 or ccarcamo@ocregister.com

http://www.ocregister.com/news/game-298 ... story.html

Good for apple why encourge them more with a game.

Gee, wonder how much this had to do with it?

COMPANY NEWS; Apple Computer Will Open Sales Operation in Mexico
By LAWRENCE M. FISHER
Published: April 21, 1993

Affirming its commitment to the personal computing market in Mexico, Apple Computer Inc. said today that it was opening Apple Computer Mexico. The new marketing and distribution development office will provide local sales, marketing, service and support to Apple's resellers, third-party software developers and partners in Mexico.

"The Mexican marketplace offers tremendous growth opportunities for both Apple and our partners," John Floisand, the president of Apple Pacific, said in a statement. "We're convinced we'll be able to build a strong infrastructure in Mexico capable of addressing customer needs in all market sectors." Apple Computer Mexico is part of Apple Latin America, which is one of five regions that make up Apple Pacific.

Emerging markets like Mexico are critical to Apple's continued growth through the 90's and beyond, the company said. Mexico has been identified as a key area of expansion for Apple; it is the fastest-growing market in Latin America and would probably grow further under the North American Free Trade agreement with the United States and Canada.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/21/bu...in-mexico.html

Nomas i think that tells alot.Dont want to hurt relations in mexico.

Originally Posted by duckman

Nomas i think that tells alot.Dont want to hurt relations in mexico.

Yea I thought so too. I've been an Apple/Mac user since 1978, I always catch their Macworld keynote addresses ( announcements about the latest stuff). I was totally P.O.'d when that announcement was made!

dying at the border is not a game....Well neither is sneaking over but they act like its a game of cat and mouse with Americans and our lives.

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