Santa Claus fired from App Store gig

Remember Santa Live 2008, the iPhone app that provided a new animated Santa Claus video to the kids every day?

Things started badly for Santa (developer Adam Majewski) shortly after the release of his app on November 14th when people found out the publisher (the Casual Game Network) was paying reviewers through Amazon's Mechanical Turk to purchase the app from the App Store, NS then leave positive reviews online.

Now the app has been pulled from the App Store by Majewski after a new fiasco — last Friday's episode of Santa Live 2008 featured the ever-popular holiday song "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" (click opens iTunes). Apparently some parents became irate, concerned that they were going to have to explain to their little ones why grandma was killed by renegade horned ungulants.

Enough people complained about the December 5th message from Santa that Majewski yanked the app from the App Store. Anyone who has purchased the app already will be able to continue viewing the daily videos.

There are a lot of Grinches out there this Christmas!

[via iPhoneSavior]