ATTN APPLE: Stop ZATZ CrapApp Publishing.
Apple: This is out of control. I’m not sure if these people are going for the award of Self-Proclaimed Kings of CrapApp or what, but this is getting to be a tad ridiculous. I mean I’m not against anyone trying to make money by selling their application on the App Store. Heck, if I had one shred of coding ability I’d already have a couple out on the store, but I know for sure I would not have 20 applications that all do the same thing!
Look, reality is this is just plain lazy coding and application whoring. They have one decent countdown application. One. They then took what was a good idea (the countdown program) and slapped 19 new icons on it and sent it to Apple 19 more times. All these applications do the same dammed thing (I’m sure if Apple checked the code they would see its almost line for line identical in the function/method), they take an input (some date in the future) then count down to that date. THAT’S IT!
Fix this Apple. You seem to be able to kick out perfectly useful applications … why not use that effort to kick out the useless CrapApps like this. ZATZ can quite easily re-label and re-icon the ONE useful program they have written here and re-launch it on the App Store.
Any objections?
I’d like to see an additional similar app for “Days to Nokia 5800″. Wonder if Apple would let this one go… hehe
It’s a fine line… where do you draw it? I totally agree that something needs to be done with crap-apps. It is ridiculous all of the apps one needs to dig through in order to find something decent. But, I have no idea how you can set standards in place to avoid this. There are too many variables. Maybe just increase the price to have an app hosted. Personally I would not mind paying more for apps if the pool of average quality was much better.