How ’bout a bit of negativity to take the shine off this fine Spring Sunday? We often share our lists of favorite apps in various categories with you – but today we’ve got a group of much less likable apps. Apps that have disappointed at least one of our JAiB team – apps that Rick Astley wouldn’t sing about, because they’d tell a lie and hurt him. 🙂
Hit the jump to see the culprits, listed by author
Frank:
My pick is Document Scanner: the scanner for you. This is the worst app I have ever bought. It works nothing like a scanner. It lets you take a picture of the document then offers a few options to adjust the picture like crop and sharpness. There is no point to this app. I’ll save you a $1.99, just snap a picture with the camera app and use PhotoShop Mobile to adjust. It’s the same thing!
I forgot to add Duke Nukem 3D to that list. When I first bought it the controls were impossible to use. I couldn’t even play it and had to wait for an update. I think the game is playable now but I still don’t like the controls. It’s better than nothing I guess, but I definitely would have picked something else for the price. Every game should adopt the control setup similar to N.O.V.A. It works great!
Brandon K
The AT&T U-verse app is horrid. 95 percent of the time, it won’t load your DVR recordings. Want to search for a show to record? Sorry, there’s no app for that — at least none that work, anyway. You’ll just get some odd error message that pops up and denies you access. The worst part? It hasn’t been updated in months. This is inexcusable for any big-name company. But for the company that is providing the cell phone service, it’s just laugably, head-shakingly frustrating.
Brandon S
Things… At $50 for the Mac app and $10 for the iPhone app – I can’t believe a $60 product can’t sync with more than one device at a time. Ah, who the hell am I kidding… Asking for an app that will actually organize my family’s lists of things to do is way beyond what the App store is capable of at the moment.
*** Looks like the upcoming update to the Mac version of Things may resolve Brandon’s beef on lack of ability to sync with more than one device at a time.
Patrick
Notes Pro – a very nice simple note-taking UI – but it has promised proper sync with Google Docs (rather than just uni-directional export) since Day 1 of hitting the App Store over a year ago and never delivered.
Michael Leger
OWA 2007. Expensive, didn’t work. Site had a fake help ticket system
that never responds to you. So weak…but ultimately my fault for
being so gullible despite the reviews.
Thomas
iGmail was incredibly disappointing. Wrote a couple of posts
describing why, but it basically comes down to the impression that the
devs don’t give a flying duck about customers.
Command and Conquer was also a major bust for a premium title. Way too
simple, no artillery, lame ass campaign mode. Buyers should get a
refund — the game sucks so much it’s offensive.
Newsprint RSS app was also rather disappointing, although the dev says
speed should pick up in the next version.
I’m sure most of you have come across some letdown apps, some that have run around and deserted you. Please share some of yours in the comments.
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