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Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by drcoopster »

protomyth wrote: post #27
dylangs1030 wrote: post #5

It 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.

Apple rejected the app. Did you read the article?

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by redthrowaway »

I wonder how smart "throw" detection is. Could I strap it to a two-stage model rocket with a couple of D class motors? Or are you limited to a single impulse event, in which case I've got a couple unfired air bags kicking around.

There's a phone recycling bin here at school; I'm tempted to grab a few old android phones and see if I can get one working well enough to try it out.

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by muzz »

ge0rg wrote: post #49

Ok, the app's web service is rather prone to manipulation: You just need to HTTP GET the following URL: http://www.carrotpop.com/smth/php/save_result.php?id= &nickname= &country=&result= &latitude=0&longitude=0 * UID looks like an autoincrement ID * NICK is what you entered for the highscore * HEIGHT is the float value of the height in meters, i.e. "1.23" In the HTTP response, you get a data structure (not sure which…

With heights in the 50m range, it looks like it's already being manipulated

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by bentcorner »

martin-adams wrote: post #56

I remember a piece of advice for taking original photos is to set the timer then throw it in the air. I would love to try it but no one will let me borrow their camera.

This guy is building a throwable panoramic camera, looks pretty cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BYSSKNS5Ks

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by edash »

There's a company in Austin called Mutual Mobile that got its start in 2009 with a similar app called Hangtime: http://www.texastechpulse.com/interview_with_john_arrow,_mut... They're now 300+ people and build mobile apps for enterprise clients.

So...CarrotPop is off to a good start I guess.

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by svantana »

redthrowaway wrote: post #63

I wonder how smart "throw" detection is. Could I strap it to a two-stage model rocket with a couple of D class motors? Or are you limited to a single impulse event, in which case I've got a couple unfired air bags kicking around. There's a phone recycling bin here at school; I'm tempted to grab a few old android phones and see if I can get one working well enough to try it out.

Nope, because phones don't have altitude detection. The only thing it can go by is accelerometer data, and you can infer what that data should look like using high school physics. They probably measure the duration of "weightlessness" (freefall), and maybe also check that there are large enough spikes of acceleration at beginning and end, although those will be mostly outside the range of the accelerometer. You can probably fool it by throwing it from some high point (bridge, building) and have someone catch it at the bottom.

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by 7402 »

dylangs1030 wrote: post #24
Retric wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They sell phone warranties for damaged phones so it's a fairly direct conflict of interest. Also "13.1 Apps that encourage users to use an Apple Device in a way that may cause damage to the device will be rejected"

Perhaps I didn't explain myself - I'm not saying the rule isn't transparent, I understand very well there's an actual rule. My complaint is that it's there at all. Although, what you said about warranties makes sense...however honestly that hasn't kept friends of mine from deliberately breaking their phones just to get new ones.

...then your friends are dishonest, and their dishonesty raises the price I have to pay when I buy a product from Apple.

Did you criticize them when you found out they did that?

Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever

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Post by corresation »

dylangs1030 wrote: post #5

It 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…

When friends ask which smartphone to get, I often recommend the iPhone, despite being a long time Android user and fan.

The reason is that Apple has a very generous straight replacement policy (at a fraction of the retail new price) even if you don't subscribe to any of their care plans. This is a world different from makers like HTC and Samsung who fully intend to double dip if you have an issue with your device, where a replacement of a broken device costs 100% of its original price (meaning you are paying again for marketing, R&D, profit, markup, etc). I have faced exactly this twice (both with Samsung), once where they claimed nebulous, unproven corrosion damage on a device that had never touched water, and had all clear water sensors. As a user there is nothing I can do to contest this, their warranty being effectively useless through no negligence of mine. They nicely offered to fix it for just over a thousand dollars.

Samsung and HTC and others want you to bust your device. Apple doesn't, because they have a stake in it as well, making no profit from your own misadventure.

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