Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
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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
#2Might actually be a good benchmarking app for makers of rugged phones
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#3As someone who compulsively throws things in the air when bored, this sounds amazing.
Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
#4I'm curious why this was banned from iTunes. Does anyone know if this is against a specific rule, or if it was a subjective decision?
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#5It 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 minutes.
EDIT: For clarification, I don't really side with or against Apple in general on things, so this isn't meant to be a "Apple's always a walled garden, BAH" post, etc...I just really feel any company should let users feel free to destroy hardware. But I understand that might not be the best philosophy to run a multinational company.
EDIT2: Just thought of a way to game this after reading another comment - slap on a Lifeproof case, go in a big pool shallow enough to stand, throw it really high. Eliminates the need to catch it (within...reason...).
Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
#6I'm curious why this was banned from iTunes. Does anyone know if this is against a specific rule, or if it was a subjective decision?
2.1 Apps that crash will be rejected
8-)
Actually,
13. Damage to device
13.1 Apps that encourage users to use an Apple Device in a way that may cause damage to the device will be rejected
Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
#7Won't take long until someone takes that thing skydiving to get the world record. :-)
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#8I 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.
Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
#9Won't take long until someone takes that thing skydiving to get the world record. :-)
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Re: Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
#10Been done: http://maemo.org/packages/view/n900fly/