Sometimes when I open up the Apple AppStore to check what updates may be available for the items I’ve purchased, i’ll have a quick look what new ones are available that might actually be worth purchasing. Without fail, i’ll see one in the Top 50 lists that should not be there, or is what I consider to be a rather pointless application.
One that would have to stand out to me would be the moron test. Now seriously, what kind of moron would pay $1.19 to find out they’re a moron?
Another app which comes to mind is one that displays pictures of women in lingerie. How awfully exciting, hardly worth paying $1.19 for when you can open up a web browser on your phone and see naked women for free.
Perhaps you want an app that is going to make various fart noises? so you can laugh yourself to death, without the smell. I think there were 5 different ones last time I counted.
If you get tired of the farting, you could always cheer yourself up by watching videos of cute puppies! Oh my, that’s always what I wanted when I felt down.
I could go on and on with lots of stupid apps that are on the store. Which leads me to ask why does Apple approve them? Are the people that have to sit there and review them thinking the same thing I am? Do they sit there and cringe at the sight of stupidity, ultimately having to approve the application because it fits in with the guidelines?
Then it goes onto the developers of these apps. Are they looking to make a quick buck or did they have an idea that someone else has already implemented and are simply going with their second best idea?
Either way, there needs to be some sort of filter put in place. Simply deny the application and tell them it’s stupid or put it in a brand new category called stupid.
This article was posted on June 9, 2009 at 4:08 pm | Filed in iphone, rants | 4 comments have been made.
WillJune 10 at 12:49 pm
Sounds like Apple’s decided to take some advice from the marketing of the Wii, i.e. make as much cash as they can out of it by selling stupid gimmicks, in this case Facebook apps that are usually free, for actual money.
Don’t knock the puppy video man, they make all the depression go away! =) That’s why I love all those Kleenex toilet paper ads, they make my day.
RadJune 10 at 12:56 pm
Well, Apple make a percentage on the application so I guess they approve it either way.. “Money in my pocket” syndrome, right?
RayrayJune 14 at 5:58 pm
ahaha the funniest part about this is how you actually took the time to write it!! It must’ve been playing on your mind coz you were so bored without having any cool apps 2 fuck with on your Iphone…
RadJune 14 at 9:48 pm
lol, you know me too well. It was playing on my mind for a while.