As initially reported by Touch Arcade, Apple developers of games like Ultimate General: Gettysburg and all of Hunted Cow’s Civil War games are being told that such apps fall out of line when framed within the greater context of what’s going on in recent events. At the time of writing, Apple has pulled everything from the App Store that features the Confederate flag, and the reasons the company is giving developers is “…because it includes images of the confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways.” However, some people, like HexWar developer Andrew Mulholland, insist that “We’re in no way sympathetic to the use of the flag in an offensive way, we used it purely because historically that was the flag that was used at the time.” — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 21, 2015 (H/T Ars Technica)
