“Though still pending approval by Apple, Penn Jillette was in San Francisco at the TechCrunch 50 conference, talking up Penn and Teller’s new card-trick app, in which they appear to be able to guess cards remotely,” Kane reports. “Here’s the way it works: The app mimics the main iPhone screen. When you invite a friend to name a card, you press a simple code on that screen, which will pull up a fake SMS screen that will appear as if you know Penn & Teller and that you text with them regularly. You hand the phone to your friend and invite the person ask either Penn or Teller what the card is. After some randomly generated small talk, ‘Penn’ or ‘Teller’ will correctly guess the card.”
‘We wanted to do something someone can do without any instructions and really really fry people,’ Penn said in an interview. ‘The fact that I’m doing tricks for people and I don’t even know about it just destroys me.’ Some Apple watchers may point out that there’s no way that Apple would approve an app that mimics their interface,” Kane reports. “The pair thought of that too and asked for permission in advance.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]
Hummm . . . yeah, I’d pay $0.99 for that.
And he’s awesome! Penn too.
You can already get a version of this. Just search for RisingCard in the app store.
They’re too late to the game.
@DPP,
Their name will sell the App genius. Thinking before doing, is a good thing I think.
Actually, the fake SMS screen will probably get the app rejected. They reject apps for using chat bubbles that are close to the SMS app. An exact replica of the SMS app would certainly seem “Confusing” to the user, which is the basis for the rejections.
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If you read the article, you would have known that they cleared the idea with Apple first, before going into development. Their minor celebrity obviously pulls some weight in Cupertino. Besides, the application does not replicate an existing functionality, nor does it do it by mimicking it. The application only fakes an existing screen. At no point in the process is the app communicating with anything or anyone. Nor is the owner (and user) of the app at any moment “confused” by the screen. Actually, he knows EXACTLY that the app is a fake SMS, since that’s the basis for its entertaining value.
While the Rising Card app may be fun, this one is different, as it implies an acquaintance with the two celebrities, and their perceived participation, which is way cooler than just a 10-second card trick (iPhone or no iPhone).
I want to make a Siegfried and Roy app that allows you to control the attacking tiger.
The app is out. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=329675359&mt=8
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