I want to focus on the good apps. I want to wake up and look at all the new apps that were released and actually be able to see them and appreciate the work that went into them. The problem is now that in order to find a good app you have to weed through 30 pages are shart… which is frankly a waste of my time. Take last night/yesterday for example: There were over 200 new apps to hit the store. I spent 15 minutes looking through them all, and there were only a handful that weren’t utter crapola.

I may not be paying for these Crap-Apps, but at the same time I really am paying for them, only with my time instead of my money.

For those of you interested – here’s the iTunes link for Elevation Pro — http://tinyurl.com/8nb3y2

So far, we’ve created a fairly successful, albeit pretty simple, application called Elevation Pro. It wasn’t all that difficult to write, but it does add value to the iPhone platform in general (it lets you get your elevation even on original 2G iPhones and iPod Touch devices).

As a company, we sit and watch apps like iFart Mobile and iBeer take the App Store by storm and we are continually amazed that people pay for the stuff. How many whoopee cushion apps can there possibly be?

Anyway, you don’t have to worry about my company contributing to the problem. For every iFart there is an Ocarina, and we are striving to make more relevant and useful applications because we know that’s where the long term money is at.

Eventually, the chaos will die down as the market matures, and hopefully we’ll see more real apps rather than novelty apps.

That’s it! One thing here is, Apple let every one and HIS DOG, use thee SDK and it seems like a lot of the early experiments people “create”, make it through the screening process. Why don’t Apple filter out the crap, and bad smells. It doesn’t seem to compliment the companies design ethos.

You’re right, these guys are in it for the money, but can we blame them? Certainly not! The App Store is somewhat of a free market (by free I mean with very few rules, except porn, etc…) and I think it is good, although it could be better if it was totally open… Now it’s our responsibility, users, to make the right choice about the app we want to buy or not. If there are people stupid enough to buy these apps, then great for the dev, he’s making $.70 out of it. It’s sad that some people would buy that, but hey, I think people in general are stupid, so this would comfort me in this idea.

I think you wasted too much of your time writing about these apps (and other similar countdown crapps). Take a deep breath and think about the next good review you’re gonna write because that’s why we come to JAIB 🙂