Appmania has made it to the London freesheets. Last night: an exposé of the app entrepreneurs in thelondonpaper. This morning: 10 Metro column inches dedicated to an iPhone app that purports to measure your sexual prowess.
Passion ‘works’ by monitoring motion and volume levels: simply ‘strap the phone to your arm and press stop when finished.’
All of which presumably means that a violent, noisy bout of onanism will see you rated as a Lothario. Well, I’m not dumb enough to pay the £3 to find out. But others may be less discerning.
There are some genuinely fascinating apps appearing for the iPhone, but the ubiquity of the handset means wading through increasing dross to find them.
And the App goldrush is only going to make things worse
Time for the avant-gadgeteers to switch to Android? Could be…
(At least the Guardian is on hand to explain that 90% of app makers don’t get paid.)
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The avant-garde gadgeteers would never go near an iPhone in the first place – nobody likes a walled garden!
P.S. 1 in ~1,000 phones in the world are iPhones – that is not ubiquity!
Dave Nattriss added these pithy words on
Aug 03 09 at
3:59 pm
