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Tricorder app is pulled from Android Market
STAR TREK FANS have been dealt a slap in the face as the Android Tricorder app has been pulled from the Android Market.
It followed a legal complaint made to Google by the holders of the Star Trek licence, European web site Eurdroid said.
Developer Moonblink said on the project's Google code page, "Sorry Tricorder fans, Tricorder has been deleted from the Android Market by Google, at the demand of CBS's legal weasels. This all happened without any discussion or warning - I was simply notified after the fact. Since I don't have legal weasels of my own, or the time to deal with this, that's it for Tricorder."
He added, "It's apparently the graphical design that's at issue, not the name. According to Wikipedia, 'Gene Roddenberry's contract included a clause allowing any company able to create functioning technology to use the name'. Now that GR is dead, I guess CBS believes they own swoopy curves."
It has been estimated that Tricorder was downloaded over 250,000 times with an average user rating of 4.64 out of 5.
For those of you who aren't Star Trek fans, a Tricorder is a multifunction handheld device used in the films and TV series for sensor scanning, data analysis and recording data. µ
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So it's been pulled from the android market.
It's available on any number of torrent sites so to CBS:
LOOSERS !! LOOSERS !! LOOSERS !!
You could have made money for this, now you get NOTHING
The license holder (if that's CBS) should have bought the rights to the app from the developer or asked a cut of the profits as a license fee. It costs lots of money to bring lawyers into it. You make more money selling than litigating.
Use Astro File Manager...
click the menu button on your phone...
click tools...
then application manager back up...
you can make back up .apk of programs that are no longer available on android market to install on your future devices...
@bofh80
I used the app, it's actually pretty cool, it uses the phones functions like GPS etc. so on the most part it actually completely functional
"functioning technology"
so is just a toy? an onscreen fake? i haven't used it so i don't know.
If it can't perform the 'real' functions of a tricorder it's not allowed to use the name. seems fair....
Why CBS, why oh why? I have the tricorder app installed and I love it. My phone, the HTC Incredible, is nearly two years old, but now I can't upgrade until they come out with a new tricorder app. This could be huge on the black market. See, now we are going to miss anonymous lulz sec, the righteous vengeful arm of the people against greedy mindless/evil corporations.
I'm sorry but CBS is kinda retarded if they think this is more then a mild inconvenience. I mean let's ignore the fact that after 250k downloads odds are anyone that really wants it knows at least one person who has it so they can just get it from them and instead focus on the fact that within 48 hours of any remotely popular free app going live on the official android market it's available on at least a half dozen unofficial markets.
Trying to remove a free android app from the web is like trying to remove spit from the ocean. Proof of point with a simple google search I found links to download v5.9, v5.11 and v5.12 ie the latest version.
Naturally they are making their own then. If not then perhaps they should examine their motives as its not like it loses them anything.