Comments on: Today’s (hugely) Stupid Example of a Useless Series of iPhone Apps

By: PatrickJ

PatrickJ — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:04:30 +0000

@ Sebastien – my pleasure on the comments rescuing – still not sure what Akismet had up its nose on those 🙂 I think these crapps get us all very stirred up lately. I may be way over-optimistic, but I imagine Apple will figure some of this out before too long, and maybe we’ll have to wade through a bit less of it.

@nsivakr – nice to see another huge apps fan – and I agree of course, there are tons of good apps out there …

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:29:45 +0000

@PatrickJ – thank you for getting my comments out of Aksimet. And thank you for sharing your insight. I do understand where you’re coming from on this, and as an iphone blogger myself, I should have known better. I guess I just have no tolerance for crapps (crap apps) so I don’t even bother mentioning them on iDB.

@nsivakr – 150 applications!? I’m curious to know how often you use all these apps?

By: nsivakr

nsivakr — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:15:21 +0000

Hi,

Unlike the olden days where it was just Windows Mobile and Palm, now a days there are plenty of choices for iPhone users. If anyone spends a little bit time researching the applications, there are enough applications almost all of them free for iPhone users.

I have more than 150 applications downloaded all for free. All of them do a good job.

So, such applications no one is going to buy even if it exists in iPhone app store.

By: PatrickJ

PatrickJ — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:37:41 +0000

Hi Sebastien – Firstly, sorry about the blocked comments. That was not intentional on the part of anyone here – Akismet had caught up two of yours for some reason – just approved both of them, including the one you refer to above, which is at:
http://tinyurl.com/8c7cwy
On the main gist of your comment, I appreciate your thoughts, even though I disagree with some. I guess my thought is movie critics write about terrible films, not just great ones. Sportswriters write about bad players / teams, not just great ones. And bloggers (not just Brandon and I, but lots of bloggers at sites large and small) write about things that interest them for good reasons, and for bad.

I definitely agree that I don’t ever want the focus of this site to be crap apps, but I do want to write about what interests me, or in this case stirs me up. Heck, I know we’re not amongst the big-name sites – but I even hope that in some small way, our rants against these crap apps and crap practices may eventually help to make headway against the practices and lead to improvements in the App Store .

I will do my very best to make sure the focus stays on good, interesting apps as much as possible though …

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:09:02 +0000

I’m sure developers of these shitty apps are more than glad that you give them free advertising on this blog… Good or bad, advertising is advertising.

You say “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”, so please do!!!

As I commented before on this blog (btw, that comment wasn’t published…), just ignore these stupid apps instead of focusing on them. I don’t care about what’s bad… I wanna know what’s good!!!