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Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
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#32It really bothers me that Apple banned an app like this. Just allow people to be idiotic. There's even a disclaimer after all... As for the app itself, cool! I'm glad somebody had the audacity to ship something as outrageous as this. I don't think it will get much of a following, but I suppose if you really don't care about your phone or you're really confident in catching this could be a cool, reckless waste of 10 m…
Apple should ban this app. The amount of support it is going to eat up not to mention the headlines the tech press is going to write are not worth it. Selling an app that is basically designed to break the phone is just a really bad idea.
Bad idea, perhaps. But why should Apple get to determine what is or isn't a bad idea for one to do with their own phone? (Although I would suspect part of the reason they banned it is to avoid claims of "Apple's so greedy that while they ban so many legitimately useful apps they allowed this one, just because it can break phones resulting in added profits for them from people buying replacement phones".)
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#33The current high score is 43.16m - I wonder if somebody found a way to cheat, or if they really really do not care about the wellbeing of their smartphone.
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#34I hope they have a standing connection to the server during the throw and detect ... disconnects. That way, they could detect crashes and give approximate credit for the height. I don't want to throw my phone high into the air, watch it go to pieces and not even get a high score.
>"I don't want to throw my phone high into the air, watch it go to pieces and not even get a high score." I'd think that would defeat the purpose of the "...and catch it!" step. If anything, I'd want such an app to record video or perhaps fire the camera for a still the peak. I'm thinking that would a be huge plus to the idiotic entertainment potential, like a less inane Vine and a slight deterrent from the inevitabl…
I agree with your idea of the camera firing...but you think this could be less inane than Vine...?
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#35The current high score is 43.16m - I wonder if somebody found a way to cheat, or if they really really do not care about the wellbeing of their smartphone.
Not that hard. Lifeproof case, throw it from a pool of water, watch it land in the pool of water.
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#36Won't take long until someone takes that thing skydiving to get the world record. :-)
I would assume that it measures against upward motion as well, but I could be wrong.
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#37Well, looking at the "World top 10" high scores (on app), the top one has a record of 43.16m. I cannot imagine why someone would threw a cellphone to this far. I wonder if there is a way to "hack" the accelerometer...
Perhaps they were on a rollercoaster or one of those rides that you take vertically straight up?
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#38Well, looking at the "World top 10" high scores (on app), the top one has a record of 43.16m. I cannot imagine why someone would threw a cellphone to this far. I wonder if there is a way to "hack" the accelerometer...
In addition to "why someone would throw a phone that far"... that height of 43 m is impressive, since it (neglecting any force except gravity) requires an object to be thrown vertically at around 29 m/s to stay in the air for almost 9 seconds. 29 m/s is over 104 km/h... but throwing things upwards is not that easy.
That top score should be the result of manipulating the sensors or the data sent to the server. [edit: ... or measuring some other action than throwing the phone]
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
>"I don't want to throw my phone high into the air, watch it go to pieces and not even get a high score." I'd think that would defeat the purpose of the "...and catch it!" step. If anything, I'd want such an app to record video or perhaps fire the camera for a still the peak. I'm thinking that would a be huge plus to the idiotic entertainment potential, like a less inane Vine and a slight deterrent from the inevitabl…
I agree with your idea of the camera firing...but you think this could be less inane than Vine...?
There is a camera design that uses exactly this method, unfortunately patented:
http://www.slashgear.com/squinto-throwable-ball-camera-grant...
Prior art, unfortunately also attempting a patent is at:
Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
#40Well, looking at the "World top 10" high scores (on app), the top one has a record of 43.16m. I cannot imagine why someone would threw a cellphone to this far. I wonder if there is a way to "hack" the accelerometer...
"I wonder if there is a way to "hack" the accelerometer..."
A fun, if elementary, physics puzzle.