Too Much Stuff!

It is estimated that there have been over 500,000 million apps downloaded for the iPhone, not to mention the ones never released or in development. Now according to Apple, over 51 million iPhones have been sold. Do the math. And that is just the iPhone. And considering such bizarre and questionable apps such as iFart, Annoy-a-Teen, Cat Photo Clock Light, iBlackout … you got to wonder, do we really need all this stuff? According to reports, iFart sold about a million.

We used to be inundated with advertising. Now we are in a deluge of apps. Some helpful, most just time wasting and useless.

So where do we go from here? What is the next ‘thing?’ Four Square, twat, twit, flogger, B-gonner? Can’t we just get back to basics and give us simple, useful content? After all, isn’t that is what the web is for? Searching for content (which Google knew well before we all did) that is relevant to what we want is the norm I think. Am I wrong? Or should I just write an new app to make a quick buck?

You tell me. (And I refuse to link to these inane apps in the iTunes store).