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Crap apps

Recommended: KRAPPS Takes Issue with Apple’s Rating System & The Number 1 (Crappy) Free App

July 16, 2009

How does an app with a 1.5 star rating from over 30,000 (mostly complaining and ridiculing) reviews, and as close to zero functionality as anything that’s ever hit the App Store, get ranked the Number 1 Free App?
That’s the very fine question that KRAPPS are posing today – just a tad more strongly [...]

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Latest Charming App Store Trend = Stupidly Long App Names Packed with Keywords

May 17, 2009

What will they think of next, those ever so clever iPhone developers who help make the App Store such a wonderful place.  We already have the devs who produce dozens of apps that all do essentially the same thing but manage to occupy 10 screens in iTunes – see this Hall of Shame worthy [...]

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‘Crap Apps’ – and KRAPPS – Featured in a Video by The Wall Street Journal

May 10, 2009

It’s been a KRAPPy weekend for me.  Not a crappy weekend by any means, but a weekend full of KRAPPS.  KRAPPS is an iPhone site that I’ve been following for a while.  They offer a scathing, humorous take on a lot of the real dross apps that make it into the App Store – [...]

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iPopetz Monkey for iPhone – Nice Idea, Terrible Execution

February 17, 2009

I really liked the idea of this new app from iPopetz – called Monkey – and the look of it, when I noticed it amongst newly added iPhone apps earlier today. Sadly, this one is definitely filed under Big disappointment for now.
The app is supposed to be a ‘true 3D vocal avatar that enables you [...]

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iPhone Dev Says Purposely ‘Terrible, Crap’ App Is Making Serious (real serious) Money

January 23, 2009

A software engineer who wrote what he calls a “terrible” and “crap” app in less time than it typically takes to eat lunch has since watched it shoot to the top of Apple’s App Store, where it’s now generating over $200 an hour despite being a free download.

We’ve talked a lot (a whole lot) lately [...]

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

January 18, 2009

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 [...]

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