We’re fairly used to hearing of apps being pulled from Apple’s App Store, but how often do you see an app pulled from Google’s Android Market? The Kongregate app was one such app, and is an interesting case. What makes this app slightly different from the rest is that it functions as a portal for the Kongregate mobile site, which offers users a similar experience to visiting the Kongregate mobile site on your browser. The part that probably ticked Google off is the option for offline mode, which essentially caches content from the browser, allowing you to use it offline. Apparently this violated the terms that you can’t use the Android Market to distribute another app store.
The Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement says that “you may not use the Market to distribute or make available any Product whose primary purpose is to facilitate the distribution of Products outside of the Market.” Do you think that what the Kongregate app is doing violates the Android Market’s terms?
