“It’s been just a month since the App Store hit the streets, and the number of applications has skyrocketed. That doesn’t mean they’re all winners though. The vast majority are downright useless, buggy, or simply overpriced,” Josh Lowensohn reports for Crave at CNET.
“Since our inaugural list of absurd iPhone apps was a big hit, we’ve picked another group of 10 that are even more absurd than the first ones,” Lowensohn reports.
Lowensohn’s list:
1. GottaGo ($1.99)
2. DrinkBuddy ($3.99)
3. Glasgow Coma Scale ($2.99)
4. HelpMe! ($.99)
5. Picocalc free (Free)
6. Touch Train (Free)
7. G-tac ($4.99)
8. Girlfriend Caller (Free)
9. National Threat Advisory (Free)
10. Pixelmetrist (2.99)
Full article here.
Surely, there must be more than just 10 absurd apps in the App Store currently, right?
My app., ‘Music To Masturbate By’ was turned down.
@Toby
I think you meant to say it was “pulled” ; )
@Toby
It must have rubbed them the wrong way.
It didn’t stand a chance of making it in so it was yanked.
I do like the National Threat Advisory one. It makes me feel safe.
@Toby
Does your app integrate with the GottaGo app?
Next week MDN will feature “The 10 dumbest blogs”, “The 10 programs to not buy”, “The 10 best time wasters”, etc. Wow, what a valuable article! I’m sure glad I set aside time to read it!
“MacDailyNews Take: Surely, there must be more than just 10 absurd apps in the App Store currently, right?”
Who gives a flying fig?
@ Toby:
You got the shaft…
I’m glad that app got jerked off the store – it was probably crooked anyway
Toby
I gotta hand it to ya, nice try.
Don’t quit, give it another shot next week.
Maybe MDN will let us know if it pops up….
Hey, Toby
Maybe your music needed more cowbell.
One more reason for no vibrating/haptic touch…
National Threat Advisory one + 1
Has anyone looked a bit more closely at those allegedly absurd apps? This guy makes up an incredibly subjective list in quite a patronising way and declares it top ten most absurd (and follows up with another ten, just in the same way).
Some of these apps aren’t absurd at all, and at least few can be useful (GottaGO comes to mind).
I was hoping to see really quirky, pointless stuff; what I saw was mainly the breadth of creativity of iPhone developers.
Original article doesn’t have much value.
The article is from Crave, which is part of CNET. Nuff said.
“My app., ‘Music To Masturbate By’ was turned down”
Get a grip.
Besides, they are the ex-spurts.
@Toby
Your app was yanked? Bummer
damn, macheese beat me to it.
OK, I don’t know any of these app’s… but how absurd can a FREE application be? If someone is going to write a kitch application and make it available at no cost, it does not deserve to be on the absurd list.
I’m writing a free iPhone app that explains the steps necessary to keep a pack of horny wolverine from gnawing on your or your family’s exposed or unexposed genitalia. An update for snowbound, possibly inebriated Canadians is in the works.
Wasn’t there one called “get a girlfriend” or something in that order? Or was it on call or housebroken boy? LOL
Don’t need no App to relax.
Based on the antiproton decay, I would say our security forces have been breached.
Where is the porn?
As I think the idea of apps is cool, cause we can all personalise our phones. But I hope the iphone doesn’t end up like Facebook with a lot of lame buggy apps entering the pool.
“But I hope the iphone doesn’t end up like Facebook with a lot of lame buggy apps entering the pool.”
It’s a little late to be hoping that now.
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The Glasgow Coma Scale is a very important metric used in evaluating trauma patients. The $2.99 price tag is absurd, but the concept should not be considered absurd.
Unless it also helps you masturbate.
Ahh ha! The Glasgow Coma Scale app was taken off the absurd list and replaced with another app after the programmer posted this reply.
http://news.cnet.com/8601-17938_105-10013834.html?communityId=2007&targetCommunityId=2007&messageId=776181#776181
Also, the original article has been updated.
” . . . but the concept should not be considered absurd.”
It would only be absurd if dog clock tally nutshell axle cream.
is actually useful–it’s really just a new kind of speed dial and adds real day-to-day functionality to your phone. One tap on the home screen to call, vs. multiple taps the usual way, including having to pick which of her numbers.
Now, none of us here have girlfriends, but, I mean, hypothetically, you can see the value.