App Store hits 500 million downloads: thanks, iFart
[Thanks, Richard]
[Thanks, Richard]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ImaYam @ Jan 16th 2009 11:00AM
Fortunately, Im not one of them..
BB! :D
Flaystus @ Jan 16th 2009 11:03AM
I'm waiting for a more family friendly version. say... Wind Breaker
suicycle.com @ Jan 16th 2009 11:04AM
That's always the problem when you open things up... you will have a significant percentage of junk. Innovation is cool; but when it dilutes the quality of the overall offering, then how much value is it really providing?
TitaniumMan @ Jan 16th 2009 11:29AM
These are the early days of the app store. Give it time.
Users will eventually reward the great apps and fads like ifart will become a smaller part of the store.
One will have to wonder if objective - C wasn't a barrier to a lot of (mostly amateur) developers, who don't want to invest in learning Cocoa, how many more junk there would actually be available.
Think what it would be like with the zillions of developers who know C++ , or Javascript/HTML/CSS :D
joe23521 @ Jan 16th 2009 11:07AM
iFart being on the top of the charts for so long is a sad, sad commentary on the current state of mankind.
CraigJ @ Jan 16th 2009 11:17AM
yeah... pull my finger?
utahnkid @ Jan 16th 2009 11:33AM
Douche bags like yourself having a conniption over it worry me a lot more than some people with a sense of humor.
Get over yourself.
Like_A_Glove @ Jan 16th 2009 11:08AM
iFart is not even funny..
Like_A_Glove @ Jan 16th 2009 11:17AM
Just the thought that million after million of us humans got excited about, and paid for an app based on an invisible object is f**king depressing.
Technodragon @ Jan 16th 2009 11:08AM
Being an iPhone user, I'd be more impressed if 10 million of those 15 million apps weren't flashlight or other useless novelty junk.
I'd much prefer to have multitasking and push notifications (or god forbid copy and paste) than ten beer drinking apps.
Technodragon @ Jan 16th 2009 11:10AM
Er, make that thousand, not million... My bad.
Todd @ Jan 16th 2009 11:16AM
Interview with Steve Ballmer April, 2007
Q: People get passionate when Apple comes out with something new — the iPhone; of course, the iPod. Is that something that you'd want them to feel about Microsoft?
A: It's sort of a funny question. Would I trade 96% of the market for 4% of the market? (Laughter.) I want to have products that appeal to everybody.
Now we'll get a chance to go through this again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance....I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2007-04-29-ballmer-ceo-forum-usat_N.htm
Mr. Picklesworth @ Jan 16th 2009 11:19AM
So what is it with Apple and sentence fragments? They seem intent on using them for every piece of marketing they publish.
Aaron @ Jan 16th 2009 11:21AM
15,000 apps and I'm STILL waiting for a last.fm scrobbler. None of the jailbreak ones work anymore and neither does the official last.fm client. :(
palehorse @ Jan 16th 2009 11:23AM
my iPhone has a NES emulator, but I haven't looked for a SNES... will do tonight!
Screw Apple's approval process.
Rules are made to be (jail)broken!
Kage @ Jan 16th 2009 11:27AM
That's a pretty good accomplishment.
Johnny Bravvo @ Jan 16th 2009 11:27AM
Does anyone know when a legit SNES emulator is coming out for the iphone?
Waveblade @ Jan 16th 2009 11:29AM
Legitimate? lol. Nintendo has their DS to sell their NES games on it, they've given nothing that they would like to develop on the iPhone
Eeiy (2413) @ Jan 16th 2009 11:28AM
Shows that the typical uncouth idiot willing to shell out for a RAPE contract is who is funding the economy...
So I guess I should not try to invent something that will change the world but instead cater to the lowest common form of lifestyle...
yes, give people revolutionary devices and all they want is to make fart sounds...
GM/Chrystler/Ford I am sorry I scolded you... I see now the light, I will in every way try to fleece every lowball person I meet in life... after all they only have fart on the brain.
ping121608 @ Jan 16th 2009 11:29AM
congrats!