We ranted recently about the ridiculous ‘Call One Name’ set of 26 apps that all do the same thing (speed dial icon on home screen), but are all sold individually at $0.99 for each person’s name that you might want to call. There are a number of these quantity over quality sort of apps hitting the App Store now. Latest I’ve spotted is the iFlag series – here’s a small part of their App Store description on the Turkish flag version of the app:
This is a cool application with an interactive 3D flag of Turkey. It is a live interactive simulation of a 3D Turkish flag modeled and simulated like cloth using laws of physics, so it moves and feels similar to an actual flag.
Honestly, I’m already not feeling I need this app. Respecting your nation’s flag, hanging one outside your home – seem well and good to me – but I just can’t imagine feeling a need to have a ‘virtual’ flag to touch and mess around with on the iPhone. That’s just me though. These apps do offer to play each nation’s national anthem on a double-tap, and let you interact with the flags which are meant to move and feel like a real flag – so for entertainment, hey if it floats your boat …
The scarier line in the app’s description is this:
We are currently adding flags for most of the countries.
How many countries are there in the world? 190 odd? So we’re eventually going to end up with how many of the iFlag series littering the App Store aisles???
The set already has 10 apps – at $0.99 each. Apple really needs to figure out a better stance on this subject soon – or we really are going to get to where it is a huge struggle to find anything useful.
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