Why Pay for One Speed Dial App If You Can Pay for 26 Instead???
*** This is a Proxy Rant. A small rant delivered on Brandon’s behalf while he is unable to get to a post editor. It’s a subject that both of us find appalling though. In fact, I just did a similar post last night on the ridiculous 30 ‘DaysTo’ apps.
Do you need to have a quick, easy speed dial icon to call Ashley, or Christopher, Jessica, or one of the other 26 names currently offered by the ‘Call One Name’ series of apps? If you do, you don’t want to be able to use one application to meet your speed dialing needs right? You’d far rather have to get 26 apps for your 26 individual names, and pay $0.99 for every single one I bet 
How stupid is this getting for the App Store? I mean, this developer has put out Twenty-freakin-Six apps already, each associated with ONE first name. There are a whole lot of names not yet covered. Dozens, hundreds, I don’t know. Is Apple going to allow 100 apps in this ‘series’??? And let the ‘born every minute’ folks out there pay $100 and litter their Home screens with this stuff?
Oh, and perhaps the stupidest little irony on this particular set of ‘apps’: they are located in the ‘Utilities’ section. Unbelievable. So we’ll head to a section intended to be full of useful items, and have to wade through page upon page of ‘Call Amber’, ‘Call Bill’ and so on to get to anything worthwhile.
I know one thing – I would *not* like to be one of the people at Apple who has to try to manage and control the App Store, trying to figure out where you draw the lines for what should get sanctioned and what should be rejected etc. – especially with nonsense like this to cope with …
I now have a project. There’s 30,000 unique names listed at babyhold . com. However since they only list about 332 currently “popular” names I’m going to write one app for every one of those. Then depending on how big of a PITA it is I may just keep going on up to the 30,000.
Screw it. If Apple can’t figure this out then maybe its time someone tries taking it to the absolute extremes. Personally I have no problems with someone creating a quickdial application, heck I love the idea, but this is is getting rediculous. There’s a bunch of developers who have multiple quick dial applications. Some have only released four on up to this guy with his near 30 of them.
Again, I have no problem with someone developing a useful application, but if Apple is going to claim over 10,000 applications – maybe they should start looking at them and determining if they see a uselessness/repetition trend. Because I see a trend and its not looking so great. Heck the trend I’m starting to see is 50,000 applications by next year. 20,000 by all the other developers – 30,000 by me. One for every name in the baby book.
FIX IT APPLE. FIX IT NOW. Don’t stop people from writing 30,000 applications that all do the same thing. Fix the store so that we don’t see all 30,000 from a single developer. Let the developer submit and sell 30,000 apps… but organize the store in such a way that we don’t have to filter through them all. (Maybe a limit to the number of apps a developer shows for a given search term?) So if I search for “call” in the app store I’m presented a list of applications and maybe limit it to 5 from one company and a then a link to “more from this developer”?
Brandon – You Go Boy! That’s a heckuva plan
Wow. I didn’t realize that I hadn’t registered on this site.
I agree fully. Although Apple shouldn’t prevent anyone from developing a product, maybe they should step in.
The main reason that this is so obvious is that the applications are all hitting at once. There is a similar flood of comparable applications on windows mobile, just spread out.
ssschmidt – good to see you here, glad you did register! And yeah, I think they’re going to have to do something about this, before Brandon’s 30,000 apps hit
I can’t believe they overlooked, “Call Throckmorton.” Fools!
@ goldenboat – LOL – they’ll get to it