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Apple yanks top weed game from App Store as sleaze app popularity surges

22
May
2014

Over the past month, one obvious trend has taken the App Store by storm: sleaze apps. Make It Rain hit the top of the iPhone download chart in early may with gameplay features such as bribing federal judges. Toilet Time became the No. 2 app (so to speak) in mid-May by promising to let players to “use your pee to clean dirt from the toilet.” And of course, there was the king of all sleaze apps: Weed Firm, a marijuana business simulator that was populated by such memorable characters as “a horny dancer.” This week, Apple had enough — according to CNET, it has yanked Weed Firm from the App Store. It’s quite possible that Apple has allowed various weed-themed apps to

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