The 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.
Step one: find a tall building.
I don't endorse this.
Alternatively: skydiving!
Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".)
Because, Apple is warranty liable for selling an app that basically get you to break your phone either via current replacement plans or the expected lawsuit. This is a money loser and a problem for parents.
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#43Look at this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.nichtlustig...
It shows comics from the German nichtlustig.de
In the appstore you can see some screenshots, also of the included 4 panel instructions: It visualizes the 4 operations to be done with the app: forward/backward, mark as favourite, random cartoon and destruction.
When I saw it I laughed for a long time :-)
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#44I wonder how this app works: Obviously it must transmit the highscore quickly enough before the phone shatters. I hope it opens and warms up a connection before you throw it. Maybe it can constantly transmit the height and falling time/speed up until the last second of life of the phone
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#45Wow, amazing! I wish I had thought of this.
Think of it as the heart of a 2-part high-school physics project:
1. Develop a rocket that will carry your smartphone as its payload.
2. Develop a case that will allow your smartphone to survive the landing.
...and a 2-part college project:
3. Find investors for your high school project, then market it.
4. Profit!
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#46The 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.
Step one: find a tall building. I don't endorse this. Alternatively: skydiving!
I was wondering how fast someone would hook this up to a rocket and see if it can actually record a few thousand feet.
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#47Pah. That's nothing. I have an app idea called 'iSkip', where you skim your phone over the water and your phone sends back how many hops it did as it's last act.
Don't fool people, there is no such thing, but there is something cooler called "the skipping movement". A real skipping app would be much more brilliant:
http://iskip.com/
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#48I wonder how this app works: Obviously it must transmit the highscore quickly enough before the phone shatters. I hope it opens and warms up a connection before you throw it. Maybe it can constantly transmit the height and falling time/speed up until the last second of life of the phone
If the app is indeed able to have a fairly accurate height value, it just needs the turning point height in order to calculate speed, duration of fall, and the (more or lees) exact time of impact. So it could transmit the value whenever it detects that the phone has stopped moving upwards.
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#49Ok, 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
* 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 encoding it is, but it is straightforward) of the highscore data:
[[["1.","LIATO","44.19m"],["2.","ROYBOY_91","43.16m"],["3.","YAIR40","35.12m"],["4.","GABRIEL","34.70m"],["5.","KAI","31.10m"],["6.","KAFAC99","21.06m"],["7.","JOSH","20.37m"],["8.","KEANSKI","17.61m"],["9.","EKREM6363","16.10m"],["10.","LORENZO","12.24m"],["2047.","MY BEST TRY","0.71m"],], ...
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#50This app should sell a kit with a parachute...This would be the new Toy Parachute Men.