When downloaded on two of Kotaku’s iDevices the ersatz Pokémon Yellow crashed immediately. Viewers going to QEAB’s website will see the following message:
If you are experiencing issues with Pokémon Yellow, we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience.
Thanks for your patience while we thoroughly investigate this issue.
We are working on a new build and we anticipate this will be completed soon, which should overcome the issue.
Again, apologies for the inconvenience.
Kotaku’s reaching out to Nintendo and Apple for comment about this Pokémon Yellow situation.
[Thanks, tipster "Sean"]
Paid Apps chart [Apple]
Blood Apathy
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 9:22 AMThere are a lot of these getting around. Like the fake tamagotchi ap, and NO ONE notices the fact it averages 1 star review, and all the reviews tell you its a fake.
PuppyLicks
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 9:22 AMWow, that’s still up there?
Holy crap I just checked and it’s number 1.
Why the heck hasn’t Nintendo cease and desisted this crap yet?
Shin
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 9:27 AMfurther proof 90% Apple users are nubs *troll*
Seriously though I was under the impression all apps have to be approved by Apple?
Blood Apathy
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 9:31 AMi am in the full belief that there is corruption in the system. Because there are just too many clearly fake apps, even the screen shots are not out of the game at all. No one is checking this stuff.
Tits McGee
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 1:09 PMThey’re approved in a general “pass them through a filter, who gives a fuck about what the content is” kind of way.
Make money first, ask questions later.
Steve
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 2:32 PMThe Apple filter is mostly there to filter even vaguely pornographic or sexual material. It’s not capable of vetting based on stability or quality… which means none of the fun sex apps, but all the scams still wind up on the iOS appstore.
PlimpyD
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 10:25 AMThis is so incredibly sad…
Badger
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 11:53 AMHow does something like this even happen? I thought Apple vetted apps before they went up?
Steve
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 2:35 PMOnly for offensive or pornographic material. Everything else is green lit, which is terrible considering how much effort Apple makes to shut down in-app purchases, to get their 30% cut.
Tldr: Apple doesn’t care unless it’s porno or they’re not getting paid.
Arctick
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 12:02 PMi think its been removed now lol
Joshy206
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 1:11 PMThe App store checking process is absolutely disgusting.
Hamish
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 5:57 PM“DISGUSTING”.
Hadriel
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 5:34 PMIf you want to see what the “app” really is you can check it out here: http://appma.kr/xIcNmx
It is a web “app” made on appmakr.
Hadriel
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 5:35 PMI went through the files within the app and found that link