Comments on: Apple to developer: No, you pull MY finger

Another rejected iPhone application raises the question of just how Apple decides which applications are useful, if juvenile, and which aren't.

[sotonin]

I want this app. damn you apple... how is this any less useful or appealing than an app that oh... has beer and lets you drink it... or lets you vibrate..... i mean seriously. there's plenty of more useless apps out there already. give us the pull my finger!

[nicholas12345]

Seriously ... why are you even bothering? If I were you and had spent my time developing this app and apple were so anal (forgive the pun). Id get myself an Android developement kit and port it to that. Thats a much better way of sticking the V's up to apple - developers moving to a rival platform. Regardless of the content of the application. This is exactly the reason there is currently a big industry shift to open source. Software freedom puts control in the hands of the people and not by big corporates like Apple and Microsoft.

[BLipman72]

One yes i was thinking that they create a new category. It is not apples place to judge comment unless it is one of their employees developing it. How does an apoplication that is not developed by apple reflect badly on them. Like i said don't like it don't use it or delete it.

And two do a search in itunes on the word fart. I bet you find even worse that the application that was rejected. Esepecially the dr. dirty album(which i find hilarious) and the fart guys parody album. Apple puts the explicit label next to these and probably should do the same here. Why in one instance an explicit label is used and with an application it is not?

[fondy]

I agree that allowing a bunch of useless apps like this one makes it difficult to find anything of value in the app store, but at the same time, allowing ump-teen different renderings of a simple tip calculator doesn't exactly simplify the shopping experience.

[rocteur]

Thanks very much Apple!

[BLipman72]

@Fondy

Interesting point. Perhaps there doesn't need to be 200 versions of a tip calculator but that may also be something that apple should look at too. I would understand denying an application as there are too many versions of it allready.

[robdepasquale]

The application is tasteless... why I never heard of such a thing. Ooops! I just farted!

[svansickle]

My 16 year old son would have loved to have this app on his new iTouch. If it was well written and fun for a large number of its users it would certainly have as much "right" to be an approved app as many of the others that are currently available. I would have appreciated my son having it too because maybe there would be less of the real thing in my house :).

[bobdouglas]

Pull my Finger is passe...

IFartMobile has been waiting for approval just as long and is FAR superior.

http://www.ifartmobile.com

Now iPhone users are free to flatulate!