55,000 applications for the Iphone - most of them suck.

[Symarip]

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/107332/10-Dumbest-iPhone-Apps.html?mod=family-love_money

The iPhone App Store launched a year ago with 500 applications. Today it has more than 55,000. Some are useful - many are plain stupid. With help from Krapps.com's Alex Miro, we've picked out some of the dumbest.

1. iNap@Work

Developer: SilentLogic Studios
Price: $0.99

This app promises to generate random office sounds -- mouse clicks, keyboard taps, pencil sharpeners, coughs, and rustling paper -- to give power-nappers some cover. Little sliders are supposed to control your "productivity" level and the frequency of each sound.

In our tests, however, the noises were a little too random to sound convincing. Besides, which is worse: to get caught napping, or to get caught using a lame iPhone app to pretend that you aren't?

2. Zips

Developer: Jake Landon
Price: $0.99

(Also available in a free version, Zips Lite)

"Zippers," reads the promotional copy. "Sexy, suggestive, and seductive." OK. But what's the point of a virtual zipper that you can drag up and down until the fun -- and the sexiness -- wears off?

To keep things lively the app comes with underwear you can change with a tap of the finger. The $0.99 version includes a camera icon that lets you add your own suggestive pictures.

3. Hold the Button

Developer: Me Mundo iPhone SL
Price: Free

Here's the deal: The image of a fingerprint appears on the screen, you put your finger on it and hold it there. Keep holding. And holding. Forever. Or until you remember that you have a life.

The game is supposed to be a test of patience or stamina or will power or something. When you finally give in, you can compare your score with slackers all over the world.

4. Sexy Girl Talk - Sexy Alphabet Deluxe

Developer: theM Dev
Price: $0.99

From the creators of such classic apps as Moronizer and Angry Kittens Attack comes the 26 letters of the alphabet spoken by a "professional voice model...in a sexual and sophisticated way." Sexual enough, apparently, for Apple to rate this application 12+ for "Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity."

You could have fooled us. What's it good for? The developer -- for whom English is apparently a second language -- offers several suggestions: "Listen to some Sexy Alphabet. Listen to some nice pronunciation. Fun for all the guys."

5. Taxi Hold'em

Developer: iSignz
Price: Free

Designed for tourists who fear that big-city cabbies will ignore their waves and whistles and drive on by, this app does the whistling for you. And when you tilt your iPhone horizontally, it flashes the word "TAXI" colorfully and rapidly enough to require a disclaimer. (It can trigger seizures when used near epileptics.)

One reviewer suggested that if you are going to wave it around the streets of New York, it should really be flashing "STEAL ME."


...More at link.

[TZ]

1. I clicked on this without even looking at the author.

Didn't have too. We haven't had this flamefest for awhile...:eyes:
BTW, Symarip there is an app you might like...Its called Shazam..and by pointing your phone at a stereo, TV, radio etc thats playing music,it identifies artist and title and even tells you if its available for download and gives you a link to a video.
Tell me thats not cool......

[Symarip]

2. You know what's cooler than that?

Knowing what fucking song you're listening to, instead of mindlessly hoping Apple's recognition software can do it for you.

[TZ]

3. You know what?

Some of us aren't professional musicians, genius, and can't always identify what the heck we are listening to. Especially if its in a genre of music that one doesn't listen to alot...:eyes:

[Symarip]

4. First of all

You recognize I'm a genius. I appreciate that.

Secondly, why would you be listening to music you're not familiar with? When in anyone's life will this happen? There's only two places where I could see someone subjected to music and not knowing what or who they were listening to: in an elevator or in a loud club. Neither of which foster a great deal of talent, typically. You might say 'what about songs on the radio' but the DJ announces every song they play. Nearly at all times in your life you will have EASY access to whatever songs or artists you are listening to at the moment. This app only exists for the pompous, or for the lazy. Or for both.

Probably both.

[TZ]

5. Someone needs to teach you about sarcasm, GENIUS

And I've had plenty of times when I've had a radio going and I don't hear who the artist or song is. Especially if I'm in a car going somewhere...Okay, I know you are gonna flame me for this but I'll also hear music in commercials/TV shows/movies that I LIKE but I couldn't for the life of me name. Its helped me several times that way.

Oh btw, I just asked my coworker who came into my cubicle and she agrees with me. HAHA...:P

[REP]

6. I realize this is probably a Lounge thing I'm not in on, but here's a serious answer

why would you be listening to music you're not familiar with?

There's a lot of music in the world. I haven't heard it all, and therefore, I can't even begin to pretend I'm familiar with every piece of music. Sometimes I run into stuff I haven't heard before (or often enough to recognize immediately).

The article you linked to was hilarious.

[TZ]

7. it's not a lounge thing

It's a Symarip thing...:eyes: he's probably posted about 5 or 6 threads about how much he dislikes Iphones....or prefers Blackberry

[REP]

9. That's cool

Thanks. I need all the clues I can get. Maybe there's an iPhone app for that ...

...and I'm posting on my 3GS!!



PS, totally unrelated: TZ, you're one of my favorite posters. Just thought I'd pass that on. :hi:

[TZ]

10. Awww thank you so much....

:hug:

[bullwinkle428]

11. 5 or 6? I'm thinking closer to a dozen!

I only felt compelled to reply, as my Intertubes are broken, and I'm just surfing DU & replying...with my iPhone!

[Deja Q]

8. I started to work on a utility as competition for one I saw, which sucked...

With luck, I can get something accomplished between now and when autumn quarter ends...