[Macworld]

Post your comments for A tale of two Tetrises here

[jbondo]

Shouldn't the article's title be "A tale of two Tetres"?
;-)

[Jason Snell]

Only if you want nobody to read it.... ;-)

[alansky]

" the best iPhone programs—games or not—should load quickly, so you can catch a few minutes of play time before it’s your turn at the checkout counter."
Sitting on a slow bus to nowhere is totally different than standing in a checkout line for five minutes. Are people really so desperate to keep their minds busy that they need to fire up an iPhone game just to make it to the register? To each his own, but this sounds a little out of whack to me. Doesn't anyone ever just do nothing for even five minutes?

[Jason Snell]

Yes, alansky, some people like to keep their brains engaged when they're sitting in a waiting room or waiting in a long line.

[jpmhughes]

Hi Jason,
So if I already have "Tris" installed does that mean the next time I sync it's gone?
Or will I have it but no updates? If it's the latter I'm fine with that.
Thanks,
Jim

[azreboot]

Unlikely. Tris might be pulled from the App Store (meaning no one else can download it and you can't update it), but I can't image Apple will use its as-yet-unused "kill switch" to remotely remove all copies of Tris. There is such a kill switch in place by Apple, but it is intended solely for malicious programs which somehow got through the App Store vetting process and could therefore theaten iPhone users' security.

[Jason Snell]

Given that my copy of NetShare is still sitting on my phone, I suspect that Tris will continue to work just fine.

[belisle]

jbondo said:

Shouldn't the article's title be "A tale of two Tetres"?

;-)

I'm going to go ahead and be pedantic here, despite the wink. I apologize in advance.

Tetris (tetranimo tennis) is not a Latin noun and even if it were, unless you know your Latin noun declensions by heart and you know that a particular Latin pluralization is correct, you might foolishly think apparatus → apparati or iris → ires. Correctly, these should be apparatus (fourth declension, with a long ?u?) and irides (third declension). So when in doubt, English-style plurals are the way to go: hence, apparatuses, irises, and tetrises+.

[pduncan]

Tetris isn't available on the UK App Store, which leaves Tris and TetoTeto!! as the only 'Tetris style' games available in the UK.
Both these still appear to be available here on the App Store, however I haven't been able to verify whether Tris still downloadable (due to work restrictions).

[sheilanolan]

I heard last night that Tris is being pulled on Wednesday. Fortunately, like the now absent PhoneSaber, I've already got it so I won't lose it unless Apple's rumoured kill switch develops the ability to steal back apps I've already got.

[eddy_k]

Tris still available for download on iTunes belgian store

[Steve_S]

That's a real shame... I consider Tris to be a much better product than EA's Tetris. It's quick, it's simple and it's stable. All of which do not apply to EA's offering.
As mentioned, I hope Tris comes back as another name just as Quinn has managed to survive legal threats.

[larsentim]

Jason Snell said:

Given that my copy of NetShare is still sitting on my phone, I suspect that Tris will continue to work just fine.

Well - my copy of NetShare has been removed from my iPhone. And all I've done besides charge my phone is to do that last update. But I'm pretty sure it was removed before the update anyhow. I definitely didn't remove it myself (I haven't removed an app yet).

So I'm not sure if it was done by Apple's Kill switch or not, but it's definitely gone, and I definitely had it installed a couple days after they put it on the app store.