SitDown. StartUp.

Dear Apple Computer Inc.,

I am writing this letter to ask you to ban the sale and download of the application Angry Birds and Angry Birds HD in the Apple iTunes App Store. (see image below)

I have personally experienced and witnessed severe levels of addiction to this game, resulting in countless hours of counterproductive bird catapulting and smashing activity.

As a large corporation you have a responsibility to limit applications that enter the App Store, like Angry Birds, that can be harmful to society. It’s not responsible to be selling a product like this and think that people will become more productive members of society. You and Rovio Mobile Ltd, need to think about the impact this game has had on the Apple community and the 6.5M people that abuse Angry Birds.

Here are some of the irreversible affects your game has had on myself and others:

-Extreme euphoria and pleasure upon ejecting black, yellow, purple, green and red birds into the sky only to watch them ultimately obliterate green monsters; Extreme bouts of depression and anxiety if latter does not occur after 10-15 catapulting attempts;

-Repeated hallucinations of yellow triangular birds accelerating mid-flight and then smashing into wood planks, concrete barriers, or ice blocks at incredible speeds;

-Delegating important routine personal activities (eating lunch, shaving, brushing teeth, wishing my mom happy birthday) to spend more time playing Angry Birds;

-Feelings of euphoria and lack of judgment (sometimes disorientation) when Black-Bomb, Toucan-Slingshot, and Obese-Red Birds were unlocked for the first time;

-Evidence that Angry Birds on iPhone serves as a gateway drug to Angry Birds HD on iPad; Upon HD’s release on iPad for $9.99 {market value}, I have experienced a much more powerful reaction and resolution to the game. Its far higher quality with more addictive features…resulting in a more expensive high with twice the counter-productivity baked in;

With all this counterproductive bird catapulting and smashing; I feel its time to make a responsible decision and stop the madness.

A recovering Angry Birds player,

-Andrew