Iphone Applications: 8 Lamest Apps Ever

Posted on October 15, 2008
Filed Under iPhone Web Apps

There are many, many applications in the iPhone App Store and new ones appear every day. Some of them are really cool and useful. Or just entertaining. But these ones impressed me by their..stupidity.

8. iPolitician

Two apps share the place. iRepublican and iDemocrat – apps for proud republicans and democrats respectively. For just 99 cents you can have an application that displays the emblem of the Republican Party and the words “proud to be a Republican” or the same thing with democrats.

In the true spirit of free enterprise the author of the app adds the disclaimer: “The money goes neither to Republican Party nor to Democratic. I might give some of it to the campaign but it is strictly retained by me.”

7. Rotary Dialer

Are you finding the iPhone dialer too advanced and comfortable to use? Do you long for the old times when phones weighed 25 pounds and packed a wallop if flung against a wall? Why enjoying the technological progress of humanity? You can stick to good old school!

Simulating the old-time rotary phones, Rotary Dialer allows you to clickand drag the dial to input the number, then simply click to dial. WOW…

6. PhoneSaber

PhoneSaber is the ultimate nerd application, allowing you to achieve honorable Jedi status simply by downloading the free app.

You are assigned the same PhoneSaber hilt as everyone else, but then you can choose from five different “blade” colors: yellow, red, green, blue, and purple. Can you imagine this!? And it can even make that old plastic saber noise when you shake it – amazing!

5. iWood

Even though some programs are free they are really not worth the clutter or storage space. iWood is a piece of wood that you are supposed to touch every time you say “Knock on Wood” superstitiously.

You may think that it is more complicated than this. But it’s not. No. It is simply just an image of a large wooden board. Simplicity makes genius doesn’t work in this case.

4. DMBSetlist

Here’s the description: “DMBSetlist allows fans of the Dave Matthews Band to access realtime setlist data in a native iPhone application with a multi-touch look and feel”.

Let’s see… that is supposed to mean that if I install this app, I can find out (I mean SEE, not even LISTEN) the most recent setlist the Dave Matthews Band played? Ok. And how could this possibly benefit you in your day-to-day activities? Even assuming you’re DMB’s greatest fan…? Someone please tell me.

3. World 9

Apps store description: “An Application making you feel like a hero in a TV game.” Poor choices in an English descriptions aside, this app merely plays the Mario Brother’s jump sound as the accelerometer detects movement on your iPhone.

I bet that’s the dream of millions – enrich your daily boring routine movements with a videogame’s soundtrack!

2. BeerCounter

A program designed to keep track on how many beers you have drank. Wow, sounds promising. Every time you drink a beer you get out your phone, you open BeerCounter, you and add one more beer to it. There is a large digital display of the number of beers you have drunk for easy reference. The question arises – why do this app exist?

And I’m not pretty sure that after a couple of beers the only thing on mind would be to immediately add another one to my “beer counting app”.

1. CowToss

That’s how I can describe the essence of this app: You pull the cow down, release, and watch it fly. Fabulous, isn’t it?

Well, this app completely deserves the first place. Not only is it the most useless application on the apps store, but the developers openly admit this and embrace it. That’s the description:

“The most stupid app ever written for the iPhone! There were 4000 developers selected by Apple to write iPhone Apps. We figure they were all going to write useful apps. So we at Digital Thought Software chose to go after the totally useless apps market.”

Comments

2 Responses to “Iphone Applications: 8 Lamest Apps Ever”

CC on October 15th, 2008 12:08 pm

While I admit Cow Toss is pretty lame, The Rotary Dialer and Light Saber are pretty cool and very popular! Wondering what are your top 10 least lame iPhone apps?
admin on November 19th, 2008 8:04 am

The practical use of which i dont quite follow