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Apple Rejecting Applications Based on 'Limited Utility'
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More Cowbell is awesome because you can use it while playing something on the iPod function in the background, thus doing your own cowbell skit. This works really well when you have the iPhone or iPod plugged into a stereo.
The application is not very impressive by itself, but that's not the only way it can be used. Flatulence noises... seriously, if you want that, record or download some flatulence MP3s, make a playlist, and use the iPod function.
The app I'm determined to make one day would probably count as being of "limited utility" and yet is a perfectly serious thing that would be professionally useful to a small niche. Would Apple treat if differently? Probably.
I think that app is brilliant though - clearly spent a lot of time working on it. Genuinely laugh out loud funny
I think that app is brilliant though - clearly spent a lot of time working on it. Genuinely laugh out loud funny
that sucks big donkey b***s
wow that sucks i would defenetly get that app just to annoy my girlfriend well count my vote that i would get it
wow that sucks i would defenetly get that app just to annoy my girlfriend well count my vote that i would get it
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+10. He actually put a lot more thought into it than I would have imagined, with all the different people to choose from.
Besides, I would actually buy 'Pull My Finger' for a buck, it would crack up my kids.
If you really want to send a message to apple. Then everyone go to this older poll thread and vote FOR farts on an iPhone.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/540336/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/540336/
Control the hardware.
Control the operating system.
Control the software.
Control the......
Hey isn't that from the Apple Ad?
That app is retarded. They need to not saturate their store with apps like this one, and ones that ARE on their store currently. Sucks to dig through all the crap to get to something useful.
Regardless of what you think of this actual application, you need to realize the broader ramifications of Apple's decision.
Apple seems to be going against the grain by not allowing the free market to decide the fate of the product.
For Apple to be based in America, this seems to me anti-American. In our society individuals are free to sell just about anything they want. Yes, we do have certain limitations - no beer to minors nor porn either, etc. But the market as a whole decides whether a product is going to stay for sale very long by buying the product or the manufacturer loses money (in this case his $50 developer fee and the costs of getting into the AppStore realm and time spent developing an app, etc).
Apple is not the woman throwing the sledgehammer at the screen anymore. They are the man on the screen telling us, the people seated in the audience, what to do and what we can have.
A sad day Mr. Jobs.
As Clint would say in this situation...go ahead punk, pull my finger...
;-)
Apple seems to be going against the grain by not allowing the free market to decide the fate of the product.
For Apple to be based in America, this seems to me anti-American. In our society individuals are free to sell just about anything they want. Yes, we do have certain limitations - no beer to minors nor porn either, etc. But the market as a whole decides whether a product is going to stay for sale very long by buying the product or the manufacturer loses money (in this case his $50 developer fee and the costs of getting into the AppStore realm and time spent developing an app, etc).
Apple is not the woman throwing the sledgehammer at the screen anymore. They are the man on the screen telling us, the people seated in the audience, what to do and what we can have.
A sad day Mr. Jobs.
As Clint would say in this situation...go ahead punk, pull my finger...
;-)
I don't agree. This isn't a free market, it's apple's market, and I think they have not only the right but the obligation to keep the utter crap out of the app store. It's already so crowded with garbage that it's hard to find the good apps. "Pull my finger?" Enough is enough.
Nope, he doesn't. Nobody has any "right" to sell anything on the app store. Apple is free to allow or not allow whatever they want for whatever reason they want (unless they banned an app because of the race or gender of the designer, or something like that).
Personally, I fully support apple filtering out the worst of the crap to keep the app store a place where you can find useful apps with relative ease. This isn't government censorship or any such nonsense - it's apple protecting its own products (the app store and the iphone/ipod touch).
Comparing this to Koi Pond as he does on his Tube video is bulls***.
Poorly written Comic Code.
I view Koi Pond the last 15 min of my lunch every day. Let me tell you, I relax quickly. What the heck are fart sounds going to do? Entertain a 4th grader? Enable a parent that would let a 4th grader be stimulated by this?
Good work Apple. Keep the Crap out.
Poorly written Comic Code.
I view Koi Pond the last 15 min of my lunch every day. Let me tell you, I relax quickly. What the heck are fart sounds going to do? Entertain a 4th grader? Enable a parent that would let a 4th grader be stimulated by this?
Good work Apple. Keep the Crap out.
First we complain about the **** apps in the store then when Apple decides to do something about by cutting out the useless apps people complain, probably the same ones. And to the ones who say they would PAY for it... that is BS. If that app made it to the store and had a price you would bitch about it. Grow up. The store was not made for grade school prank apps. Go Apple for taking care of this problem.
Agreed. There simply is a segment of people in society that will rush to defend any idea that is challenged by the "system."
Bottom line: Apple owns the application store; it can allow or forbid any application it wants for any reason.
I don't think people disagree with this. That's not the problem.
I have no problem if Apple decides it wants to specifically ban all fart-related apps. That's fine. Just say it if that's why.
But how many hours/days/weeks are you going to put into an app when it can be blocked for vague reasons only after you're done. "limited utility."
arn
That's a flawed argument, since if you own an accordion, or have any need to identify one, you're simply not cool enough to own an iPhone
Frankie Yankovic FTW!
Right on. I coded all night one night and spent $50 bucks for the royalty free fart sounds in "Flatulence", my fart machine app that was denied. I've never laughed so hard while coding an application in my life. Apple wiped the smile right off my face. Now "Flatulence" is only for my wife and I to laugh at, since it was denied from the App Store.
To all the prudes calling these apps crap, I had way too many people interested in this type of app. For every prude who bashes an app like this, I'd bet there are 10 more that would like to have it. Just read all the support for "Pull My Finger" on this thread.
People should have a choice. What if you went to a restaurant and the restaurant said you cannot have French Fries because they cause obesity? I'm sure you would not agree to this if you are a French Fry lover.
One more point. People that complain there are too many apps in the app store need learn to use the search feature. Its like saying that we need to remove all the pages on the internet because its too hard to find exactly what I am looking for. Its ridiculous. One mans trash is another mans treasure.
I didn't really have the gall to "raise a stink", but I am glad this developer did.
THANK YOU APPLE!
There is far too much crap in the app store, I personally am glad they are starting to limit this.
I'm not talking about free stuff, but pay stuff should definitely be monitored.
There's way too much stuff that people slapped together to try and make a quick buck.
About the "pull my finger", that actually sounds like a pretty funny app, I'm talking in generalities not about that specific application.
There is far too much crap in the app store, I personally am glad they are starting to limit this.
I'm not talking about free stuff, but pay stuff should definitely be monitored.
There's way too much stuff that people slapped together to try and make a quick buck.
About the "pull my finger", that actually sounds like a pretty funny app, I'm talking in generalities not about that specific application.
Yes, and, it does cost money to host these apps as well, right? People talk about this as if it's all about Apple being a tyrant, but that's just not the case when space is limited. These really unambitious developers have a right to develop, but not a god-given right to force Apple to distribute.