Actually, it might be like VersionTracker
July 10th
If you’re thinking in terms of a couple hundred dollars, your app probably isn’t even going to get listed in the App Store. The App Store isn’t going to be like VersionTracker or MacUpdate, where every piece of junk gets listed as it’s submitted.
-John Gruber, Friday, 27 June 2008
What. The. Fuck? http://xrl.us/kkkdy Productivity?
-John Gruber, Thursday, 10 July 2008
July 10th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I hope someone cheated to get those times into the screenshot.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
If you go to the developer’s webpage, he has family members listed as product management. He’s probably 12 years old. Give him a break.
I’m glad Apple isn’t going to be filtering out the apps. And I can’t wait to post my hold-the-button high score!
July 10th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I’m getting an impatience headache just looking at this.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Wow. That’s rich.
I can write me some malware for your iPhone, and they don’t even check.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Taybin, I agree. VersionTracker is fine by me. The ITunes Store podcast listing is like VersionTracker, and I still find the good podcasts. The Apple.com Downloads page is like VersionTracker, and it’s still pretty good.
Actually, the Apple.com Downloads page is considerably less noisy than VersionTracker because you don’t get recycled to the top for arbitrarily small version bumps. It’s probably a much better analogy for the ITunes App store than VersionTracker is.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Taybin: Even if he’s a kid learning iPhone development, he shouldn’t be able to publish his useless Cocoa experiments. Almost the same functionality is available by pressing “Start” in the stopwatch tab in the Clock application.
TripLog/1040 has a hideous interface, but at least it does something useful.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I love how it is categorized under “Productivity”. Effin’ awesome. Take that Apple!
July 10th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Stress balls, rubix cubes and Newton’s Cradle have all found their way into offices. They may be on to something with this creation!
This is not malware, spyware or malicious. It does nothing to infringe the terms and conditions. There is no reason not to publish it.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
It’s the killer app that has finally pushed me to get an iPhone!
Hee. I for one think the world, and the App Store, is a better place for having this.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
The developer paid $99 to enrol and released this?
July 10th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I think the people complaining are not parents.
You don’t use it yourself to gain productivity. Let your young children have a crack at it, though, and your productivity will soar as they leave you alone… at least temporarily. :-)
July 10th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Come on, the reason this is there is the same reason that nearly 10% of the apps (and a healthy number of flashlights and to-do lists) are public-domain books posted as individual applications: Apple wants to be able to say that 500 applications were available at the store’s launch.
Great, you hit your number. Now as the number grows, Apple needs to show how they’re going to start weeding the crap apps off so that we don’t have to scroll past them every time we peruse a category list.
In any case, I only wish the author was charging for it. I’m curious how many more or fewer people would try it out for $1 than would try it out for free.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I’m confused — why should Apple filter out the crap? Should they only allow good music in the music store?
What we need (and what will certainly appear) are lots of external to let us know where the gems are. As the App Store grows, browsing through for the best is going to become untenable anyway. Apps like this one will sink without ripples, buried on page 38 of 67.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Next to “Highest time”, it reads 95 seconds…..
July 10th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
For more fun, check out CowToss (http://tinyurl.com/5bz2nn) and also be sure to check out other software by that publisher…
July 11th, 2008 at 6:13 am
@Todd good eye.
So that means we’re just seeing 2 minutes 45 seconds. Easy to beat. Still easy to be productive. :)
July 11th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Perhaps it’s meant as a tool for meditation.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I actually think the developer program should be open like Version Tracker, but there should undoubtedly be a far more developed method of sorting and filtering apps. In the iTunes store (desktop version), for example, there is “What’s New,” “What’s Hot,” etc., then some lists of thumbnails/names with pagination — no descriptions, ratings easily viewable, etc.
In contrast, the Apple site’s “Downloads” section (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/) provides much more data and sorting options. Why would their website be more robust than the desktop app?
July 11th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
…it says 95 seconds, clearly this isn’t even worth discussing
July 12th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Geez, way to crap all over some parents and their kids (according to their website) trying to do something fun together.
July 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
That’s 2min, 45sec, 95hundredths, ‘Todd is smart’.