Apple kicks out quack app, keeps boobs/farts Apple has rejected an application that quacks on the grounds that it's pointless, apparently failing to notice the true value of what fills the iTunes store. Atlantia Software developed the QuackPhone application, which was rejected by Apple because it "contains minimal user functionality" as explained in the email sent to the …
I want my wobbling boobs dammit!
Seriously, if you can be serious in the light of Apple's doubletalk, people will vote with their feet... just as soon as there's a serious competitor to the App store that is!
This is the issue - Apple currently have the monopoly and the chances of anyone catching up soon aren't big.
If you've got the monopoly, you call the shots.
The rest of the market is too fragmented and doesn't have a clear vision.
Love them or Loath them, you have to give Apple credit for creating what is arguably the best mobile digital content 'store' to date - and they've done that through control over the device itself.
No other player can currently do what Apple have, because of the fragmentation - the sheer volume of different devices, with different operating systems.
I take it that was just for show - because an increase from the "arousing" version to the less sexually stimulating wobbly fat thing version is a cool 850k users. Nice user-base at 99cents if you can get it.
Think I'll give it a miss and use my PC for the more stimulating fun ;-)
Just what I need on my morning commute. Now, not only will I be dealing with stupid ringtones and idiots who don't equate a speakerphone with the ban on radios on trains, but now I risk being clouted by some twonk trying to animate britnee spirs nekkid pix.
Wasn't a similar thing used to show how naff tabloid journalism could get in a TV show called "Hot Metal"? Wobblevision I think it was called.
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