Angry BirdZ iPhone game developer claims ‘similarities are purely coincidental’, removes app

Tamas Novak, developer of Angry BirdZ, has informed Pocket Gamer that he has decided to remove the app to “change some characteristics which could coincidentally mislead some careless App Store users.”

Angry BirdZ's title shares some resemblance with Rovio’s physics puzzler and uses the logo of the Illinois Red Birds as its iTunes icon.

Novak assures Pocket Gamer that misleading customers was never his intention. “Any similarities are purely coincidental”, he says. “[I]t is really hard to find an unique app name, because there are hundreds of thousands out there”.

On the subject of cost, Novak claims he chose the hefty $10 price tag because “every developer has the right to choose it, and every customer can decide that it worths that much for himself/herself to download it.“