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- refreshers, on 09/06/2008, -12/+59This app is a load of *****
- dexaroni, on 09/06/2008, -4/+47Next up "Pull my finger because IM RICH" app
- Raian, on 09/06/2008, -10/+50Thank you Apple. Now please take care of the rest of the useless apps.
- rivalius13, on 09/06/2008, -1/+36Online petitions are great, they always work.
- picnichouse, on 09/05/2008, -16/+48Apple deciding what's "OK" is a scary precedent. Let's nip it in the bud by debunking this "limited utility" claim - join this campaign pledging to download "Pull My Finger" if Apple accepts it into the App Store: http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/apple-please-all ...
- kevinmotel, on 09/06/2008, -4/+25Farts are funny.
- Ramenhood, on 09/06/2008, -8/+27You know, most of the comments pleading for this app will be by people with no iPhones..
- MeatyMcBeef, on 09/06/2008, -6/+23No. Awesome App. Any technology that makes fart sounds more accessible to the masses is awesome.
You know it. I know it. Michelle Kwan knows it and the people who will bury me for an outdated sports figure reference know it too. - screwzluse, on 09/06/2008, -2/+17An interesting way to look at it. I would say the Cowbell app could be considered a "childish gag app of no technical practicality." Hell, the lightsaber app could be considered that too, imo. It's really a poor way to look at it.
- SilentRamble42, on 09/06/2008, -1/+17I find so much use for my beer app
/sarcasm - DeFex, on 09/06/2008, -2/+16they should make a benny hill app with the full compliment of fart noises AND boobs.
- heartsblood, on 09/06/2008, -4/+18I really don't like the idea of apple deciding what is and what is not acceptable. If i'm paying for it who the ***** cares? Luckily Android will be out soon, I just hope Google remains true to it's word about being less intrusive to the applications it allows.
- joshf52, on 09/06/2008, -3/+16 I ride on the subway everyday to and from work, and I would probably be briefly entertained if I heard mysterious fart noises coming from an unknown source.
- MtheoryX, on 09/06/2008, -3/+13I thought it was hilarious. But then, I'm easily amused and hang out with some pretty stupid people.
- lolmax, on 09/06/2008, -2/+12technically i would say its closer to a load of shart
- Gee1004, on 09/06/2008, -0/+9Where the ***** is flash?
- qpingu, on 09/06/2008, -5/+14It's wrong for Apple to decide what apps are and are not allowed, even if they're something as stupid as this one. Maintaining a clean image is one thing, but the slippery slope is hard to ignore.
- Nouman6, on 09/06/2008, -11/+17I am the only one who see's that app making money? (if it wasn't free)
- Spanktacular, on 09/06/2008, -4/+11If this were for the BlackBerry, I could have installed it without Steve Jobs's approval...
- gestalt, on 09/06/2008, -2/+9You know what this needs?
MORE COWBELL! - Vektuz, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8You're right... They benefit both parties!
APPLE: can ignore online petitions without getting bothered by them or even looking at them.
PETITIONERS: can sign online petitions without any effort, and can still feel like theyre "doing something" about it.
everybody wins - santaliqueur, on 09/06/2008, -2/+9So Apple has no right to do as they wish with their App Store?
- Clbck, on 09/06/2008, -5/+10I really don't want a farting app, though...
- Khast, on 09/06/2008, -6/+12Hmm, thank god Motorola, Nokia and any other cell phone supporting Symbian doesn't have this kind of authority... Wow...Apple gives people the ability to create and sell apps for the iPhone...and yet they are still able to decide what is okay, and what is not. Apparently it is "for your own protection", but I see it in another way...The iPhone is nothing more than an over hyped smartphone with a decent processor, multi-touch support, and many cool features....IT IS BASICALLY A ***** COMPUTER. So, why is it that the company which makes said computer releases an SDK so people can write their own apps....can also say what can and can't be installed on said computer?
- CoreyTamas, on 09/06/2008, -4/+10If you want to start a signature-writing campaign, how about putting that time and energy into things having to do with human rights, world hunger or literacy instead of trying to champion an app that makes half a dozen fart sounds? I mean, is this really your idea of a "cause"?
- CalcProgrammer1, on 09/06/2008, -5/+11You say this as if limiting your platform is a good thing. It's not. Look at Windows and Linux, even the Mac OSX for PC. They allow anyone to make apps for their platforms. Nobody tells you what apps you can or can't install on your PC (other than the government, but that's a whole different story altogether). In fact, Windows Mobile for phones is open too. Maybe Apple does have the ability to limit their platform, the idea here is that why would they want to. People have come to accept an open platform and don't want to get their content through a filtered, centralized "store"
- MacHarborGuy, on 09/06/2008, -0/+5as I said in another comment, I bet the farts were just a bit too wet for Apple's tastes.
- morphinapg, on 09/06/2008, -0/+5just put it on cydia
- sg7791, on 09/06/2008, -1/+6is my favorite Pokemon.
Don't leave your sentences open like that. People can put anything in there. - Spanktacular, on 09/06/2008, -4/+9Maybe you should ask Steve Jobs what you should have for lunch today, too?
- shrubbery, on 09/06/2008, -7/+12it's their platform, they can do what they want with it.
- SupaFlyTNT, on 09/06/2008, -0/+5Verizon is the same way; it sucks but it's the truth. You try to get a app on the VZ network without their permission....it's not possible (without inside knowledge).
I don't know if it's right or not, but thats why I don't use an iPhone or Verizon; i use tmobile with unlocked GSM phones; im not missing much. - FUR10N, on 09/06/2008, -1/+6i kno, it stinks
- samimnot, on 09/06/2008, -2/+6LMAO...yet, here you are on Digg and commenting on an Apple article.
- thundacatblue, on 09/06/2008, -0/+4Save the farts! Just jailbreak your phone. MyPoots has 10 different fart sounds and it's free.
- ilgaz, on 09/06/2008, -0/+4Every Symbian,Windows Mobile and even advanced (2.0) J2ME handset owner you see have rejected to buy iPhone.
Currently Symbian and Windows Mobile phones are more expensive than iPhone and yet people still choose them. It will be a huge difference when Adobe releases Flash Lite 3 (equivalent to desktop 9) freely to smart phones.
I don't like to monkey with firmware or device security to run any 3rd party app I want so I buy a Symbian device. My next upgrade will be Symbian too and just at this house, there are 4 Macs we use.
Also see my post going down to "0" and - something soon? I don't want to be part of such a fascist community/cult. - javaroast, on 09/06/2008, -0/+4I just love how people think businesses should have the right to do anything they want relating to their gadgets. The future looks so awesome, doesn't it, full of businesses that make all decisions for the consumer.
Apple wants to tell me what apps I can and can't use, ISP's want to tell me how I can use my bandwidth, and the RIAA wants to tell me how I can use my music. I'm sick of it all. ***** it, I'lll buy the gadget, the product and use it how I damn well please. - Clbck, on 09/06/2008, -4/+8How is it wrong of them to regulate what is sold in their store? They are perfectly within their rights to reject an app for any reason.
- specialbuddy1, on 09/06/2008, -8/+12If the 999.99 dollar ruby app can make it to the app store then this should as well. It might be stupid but most of the apps are stupid so it fits.
- polyp2000, on 09/06/2008, -0/+4The more and more i read stuff like this the more im starting to think that getting an iPhone isnt such a good idea. Seriously i've been thinking about getting a mac, maybe an iPhone. When OSX came out i was very interested in getting mac because of its unix and open source roots. But now im starting to see that Apple are actually less open than the dreaded microsoft. They bring out cool products , put hem in a high price bracket for the consumer making them more exclusive to the consumer. But it now seems obvious that they want to make application developers exclusive too. AFAIK im sticking with my Ubuntu laptop and ill wait a bit longer to see what these android phones are going to be like.
- voyman, on 09/06/2008, -0/+4I don't like the app. But Apple has no right deciding what *you* should be putting on equipment that *you* own. Boycott the pompous bastards.
- inotocracy, on 09/06/2008, -1/+5Someone else might. As long as the app doesn't crash the device, or have malicious intent, Apple should allow it to distributed through the store. They shouldn't be policing what content users "may" want. Let the users decide, not some ***** snobby corporation.
- Laminarcissus, on 09/06/2008, -3/+7All of the people with no iPhones will have fifty different versions for our OS from fifty different coders available by tomorrow, many of them free.
And we'll be able to download them directly without asking our wives, mommies, or Apple. - richardyork, on 09/06/2008, -2/+6I will give you that there is a lot of fluff in the App store, but shouldn't I have the freedom to decide what is and isn't fluff? I don't need a babysitter.
I think Pull My Finger is hilarious and I want the ability to download it. I can just imagine all the serious social situations that can be disrupted suddenly and liberated from uptightness with the joy of fart noises. Think of all the third-world countries we'll save and starving mouths we'll feed! You can help too! Jump on a couch cushion and free a fart! - MtheoryX, on 09/06/2008, -3/+7It does seem odd that people think when they pay a large amount of money for something that they have a say in what they can do with that something.
On second thought, no, it's not odd at all. - khyberkitsune, on 09/06/2008, -0/+3Hmm, sad that my PSP works with Flash - AND makes phone calls for $30 a year to the USA and Canada.
Oh, and it plays some graphically-intensive games, and it can output to a television.
iPhone loses, IMHO, and I *HATE* Sony. (PSP was a birthday gift from my young and dumb brother.) - khyberkitsune, on 09/06/2008, -0/+3They could get rid of half of the overhead if they'd quit manufacturing most of their stuff in Mexico - the QA there is unbelieveably laughable. We've had shipments of logic boards come in - SAND EVERYWHERE INSIDE THE BOX.
Guess who had to clean that ***** up and test each and every board? Yea, not worth even the $24/hr overtime. No way in hell. - Laminarcissus, on 09/06/2008, -1/+4@CoreyTamas:
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
While Apple doesn't have a monopoly in cell phone hardware or services, they do have a 100% monopoly (although true, not in the legal sense) in one crucial area: the distribution of iPhone apps. As you say, they are a profit-making enterprise, and the decision to monopolize that area of the business was driven by revenue equations, and future decisions will be driven by revenue equations as well.
That's why I think we hear concern in this conversation, which is a conversation among users. Apple told them the rules of the app store when they dropped the $200 and signed up for the contract, and banning "apps we find socially unacceptable" wasn't among them.
So I think it's very fair to ask what a company with a profit motive and monopoly power, who has just demonstrated that the app store rules can "evolve", could do to their investment in the platform.
Removing Exchange functionality is certainly an extreme case for illustration, but what if, in the upcoming new product announcements, Apple announces a free Exchange work-alike groupware product? What if our profit-making corporation does the math and decides that, by switching Exchange functionality to their groupware, they will alienate certain existing iPhone users but speed adoption of a platform they will use in much more profitable ways? When necessary that type of decision is fairly common among companies with some form of market control.
Will Apple block apps that function perfectly, integrate with the interface beautifully, but conflict with a profit-making Apple app, or one of its partners? Will Apple reject apps that conflict with future unannounced market strategies for the iPhone or even some other Apple division? Will developers succumb to a chilling effect, not willing to put investment into iPhone apps if they're not sure whether they will ultimately be approved?
There are a 101 scenarios, all illustrating the dangers not of profits, or app stores, or Apple, but of a closed platform with a single delivery system. If the iPhone were open none of these discussions would even take place. - intellimouse, on 09/06/2008, -0/+3Well, they do have a right, but I do wish that people would stop buying their products because of things like this. Too bad that most people don't think it's a big deal.
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