There are a lot of cool applications that you can download today to your iPod, iPhone or iPad. Most of these can make your life easier or impress your friends. The purpose of this discussion, however, is to talk about the ones that are that are just weird, insensative, or just plain awful.
Atomic Fart – Ok, nothing much here to explain. This app will play fart sounds. With the full version, you get more features including a drum set that lets you either play your fart machine freestyle or in the form of a “Simon Says” game. Hours of entertainment.
The “baby shaker” – this app featured a cute baby wrapped up in blankets and urged player of the game to “shake” the device until the baby’s eyes were replaced with red x’s. You can imagine that this did not go over very well. After outcries from the National Center for Shaken Baby Syndrome came pouring in, Apple pulled the program from the App store and issued an apology.
“Me so Holy.” An Apple rejected App that allowed users to place a photo over the face of Jesus or other religious leaders. Yep, bad idea.
iVooDoo. Stick pins into certain areas on a doll that representative one of seven feelings including positive, negative, wealth, power, success, love and spirituality. Upload a picture of those you aren’t so fond of to be the face of these dolls. Ouch
Creating apps is the new way to be creative! With thousands of apps available I can understand that you need to be creative to stand out but it is important to remain respectful. Think outside of the box but do it without ideas involving hurting people. Oh, and just stay completely away from religion.
I’d never heard of these apps before reading your blog. Probably because I wouldn’t be looking for them in the first place. I am glad to hear that Apple has the decency to stand up and remove the objectionable ones from the store.
While the religious ones are offensive the baby shaking one really crosses the line. It amazes me that someone considered it acceptable enough to even create it.
By: kghart on May 9, 2010
at 3:02 pm
I too have posted about apps. It is just amazing to me that there is an app for just about everything!
Atomic Fart – really?!?!?
Baby Shaker – That is just wrong and disgusting on so many levels. I couldn’t even bring myself to click on play to watch it.
Me So Holy – You’re right, another bad idea.
iVooDoo – A little freaky, but kind of fun on an purely innocent level.
Who created, better yet who likes these apps?
By: mediachitchat on May 17, 2010
at 7:30 pm