The Top App: You Gotta Be Kidding Me

Posted on 24. Dec, 2008 by in iPhone, Marketing, Tech

When Aryeh posted about the iFart app, an application that enables you to make a farting noise using your iPhone or iPod Touch, I did not think it was news/blog worthy. Well, it seems I was very wrong! The iFart app is said to be pulling in $10,000 a day. It has been in the top apps list every day since it was announced. Yesterday, it hit its highest numbers with 13,000 downloads.

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According to MacRumors’ numbers, the iFart app pulled in over 9k for its developers, just yesterday! So how do we explain this crazy popularity of fart apps? Well, it is probably a mixture of a few elements. The first one is that Apple originally rejected these types of apps and only recently allowed them into the app store, that probably gives a lot of people incentive to download them.  Maybe it is the utter stupidity of these apps that cause people to download them and show them to friends for a good laugh. But to pay for such an app?

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I mean, I have to admit, I downloaded the whoopie cushion app just to laugh about it with my wife, since she claimed a few weeks ago that so many apps in the App store are just so useless that she wouldn’t be surprised if someone made a whoopie cushion app. Too bad I did not listen to her, I could’ve been a very rich man today.

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I had to download it, but after showing it to her and laughing for 30 seconds, I deleted it. So why on earth would someone pay for a fart app? I guess the so called economic crisis is not felt by iPhone users. How else do you explain it?

-Hillel

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  • http://technmarketing.com Aryeh

    All I have to say is “TOLD YOU SO” :)

  • hilzfuld

    When you’re right, you’re right….But I was right about this:http://www.iphonealley.com/news/apple-in-ear-headphones-available-not-iphone-compatible

  • http://technmarketing.com Aryeh

    That is just the stupidest thing ever. You win.

  • ferredoxin

    Narrator: “Joe had awakened to a world in crisis. The economy was in a state of deep neglect. A great dust bowl had ravaged food supplies. And the number one movie in the country was called Ass. And that’s all it was for 90 minutes.

    It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay.”

  • Constable Odo

    I’m happy for the developers that they pulled some greenbacks, but apart from that, these apps are useless. Are you really gonna use it when your boss sits down at the meeting? Yeh, I wish. Might be fine for high-schoolers, but do adults really enjoy this sort of stuff.

    I’d like them to be modified into some sort of bird callers that have the sounds of hundreds of popular bird songs/calls. Now that would be educational.

  • beanboy

    lighten up.

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