Developing for the iPhone seems just a little outside the scope of my expertise. I’m not saying that I can’t do it, but I feel like my time can be more constructively spent providing useful insight and feature requests to an existing developer I support rather than take on the monumental task of coding my own app from scratch. That said, I occasionally tweet about my thoughts on programs and since almost everyone and their mother is on Twitter, today I was graced with a quick response from a developer after making a (somewhat snide, I’ll admit) comment.My tweet was simple and to the point:
It must be a slap in the face to serious developers to see the top paid iPhone app is “iFart Mobile”
Within five minutes of me posting this tweet, I get a response from the developer saying the following:
can you define “serious developers”? just because we have a sense of humor doesn’t make us any less serious.
Indeed, having a sense of humor doesn’t make you a less serious developer. On the flip side, seriously developing an app centered on fart jokes doesn’t make your app any less of a novelty.
In retrospect, I could’ve worded differently in 140 characters, but I still stand behind my original tweet. The heart of my argument was really geared towards the developers that are attempting to make a genuinely useful application, only to be eclipsed on the top 25 by what is, in essence, a fart joke.
Then I thought a little more into the response and how quickly they were to respond. They must just have a Twitter search window open, refreshing it every few minutes or so. After doing a quick search myself, found that I’m not alone:
swords: Somewhat sad to see the iFart iPhone application still in the top five list after two weeks.
l3e3e7: So the number one IPhone app in the app store is “iFart“. And that is the state of the nation.
cdny: Think about this for a second and what is says about the future of mobile applications: iFart is now the most popular iPhone application.
True that I picked out just a few tweets that support my case, but most of the coverage relating to iFart on Twitter are in regards to the astronomical amount of money the developer(s) made in such a short period of time (over $40k in just the first two days).
In summary, I’m sure the iFart devs are laughing all the way to the bank. They’ve made, in a matter of two weeks, what most people make in two years (or more!). Between the combined press coverage, the low price, and the novelty of it all, I’m sure we’ll see it maintain it’s #1 position for a good while, or at least until iBoobs comes out…
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