Top 10 Stupid iPhone Tricks
By just about any measure, the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple iPhone App Store has been an astounding success. It reportedly did US$30 million in business in its first 30 days, during which time users downloaded 60 million applications. For a store that didn't exist before the launch of the 3G Latest News about 3G iPhone in July, that's pretty damn impressive.
Still, by lighting up the world with so many cool third-party iPhone applications, Apple has also opened the door to deeper, dumber issues -- like the $999 "I Am Rich" application that eight people managed to buy before Apple had the sense to yank it from the store altogether. There's a walkthrough online, but basically it just offers the "rich" (or formerly rich) owner a glowing graphic of a ruby and a super-stupid "I deserv it (sic)" mantra.
While the "I Am Rich" app is clearly quite useless, how might other apps make the grade? The criteria are totally subjective, of course, but basically it comes down to this: If the apps don't fulfill a real need, if their implementation is pathetic, or if they are just plain dumb and stupid, they make the list. The app is just taking up space and wasting our collective lives as we try to dig through the crap to find the true gems in the App Store.
