On Wednesday, Kongregate's new Android gaming app, Kongregate Arcade, was pulled from the Android Market after only one day in the sun. Google says the app violates rules set forth in the Android Market Distribution Agreement, as it distributed other apps from inside the app itself.
"We were very surprised, especially since we had shown it to several people at Google in mobile," Kongregate CEO Jim Greer told Joystiq.
"The reason for the removal, and we didn't find out until after it was already gone, was that they claim you can't use their app store to distribute another app store -- which is a reasonable restriction. But to us, what's really bizarre, to call [Kongregate Arcade] an 'app store' seems like a pretty extreme stretch,” said Greer.
"Literally, you can go to m.kongregate.com and play any of the games," Greer emphasized. "And the experience will be -- once you've got the game on your phone -- just the same. So, it's all essentially cached content delivered in a browser, which to me is just bizarre that that would be considered an 'app store'.”
The app can still be downloaded from Kongregate itself, but the removal by Google is still perplexing.
