I’ve been wanting to lay off posting on the growing (and awful) trend towards producing large sets of iPhone apps that all do the same basic thing (and charging for each one), but I keep seeing worse and worse examples of this dodgy practice. Last night I saw an example that just leapt off the page, in all the wrong ways.
The TapFinder series offers no less than twenty individual apps, each of which promises to help you find a specific thing while you’re on the road – from a bed & breakfast, hotel, or hostel, to coffee shops, book stores, banks and so on. And each one finds ONLY one thing, and each costs $0.99!
So … you can spend nearly $20 to end up with twenty icons polluting your home screens, and between the twenty of them they still come nowhere near matching the Google Maps app, Earthcomber, or any number of other solid programs that could help you find everything covered by TapFinder, and a whole bunch more. That’s just what you need when you’re out and about – 20 stupid apps to wade through when looking for a post office or a hotel or similar.
We’ve talked before about how it would be nice to see a ‘Novelty’ section added to the App Store, so some of the bizarre, useless looking apps could be housed there and other categories would hopefully stand a better chance of being populated with more useful programs. When I look at the TapFinder series, I don’t even believe it fits in a Novelty section though. It deserves another section, one that should perhaps be labeled ‘Only For The Criminally Stupid’ or similar. I mean seriously, $20 for 20 apps that don’t match up to several free single apps – just ridiculous …
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