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And I Thought We Had a Problem with Imitators

December 22nd, 2008 by Ellen

There are seven apps - today - in the iTunes app store with a name containing “iFart”.

I’m just amazed.

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8 Responses to “And I Thought We Had a Problem with Imitators”

  1. Kerim Satirli says:
    December 23, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    and the worst thing is: people actually pay for them!

  2. Kevin White says:
    December 23, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    You know, it seems odd that you can have multiple apps in the app store with the same name. Yesterday, I discovered that there are three “Units” applications. Someone said, “Get Units, it’s great!’ (No, that’s not a plug; that’s literally what they said) and so I got it.

    I said, this is… not really great, it’s kind of just a list of stuff in a generic table.

    Turns out I had ‘the other Units’.

  3. Bill Curnow says:
    December 23, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    At last count 33 “body function” applications have been added to the store since the Pull By Finger ban was lifted.

  4. Todd Ogasawara says:
    December 23, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    The thing I found amazing was that iFart Mobile hit #1 in the iTunes Paid Apps Top 10 list. It overtook SimCity for iPhone to do so (quite a feat IMHO). Its developer published day-by-day unit sales stats. It sold 5497 units on Saturday, Dec. 20, at 99 cents each (minus Apple’s 30% take).

  5. Chris Le says:
    December 23, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    What I want to know is why were you searching for farts on the app store?

  6. Ellen says:
    December 23, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    Good question, Chris. I’d just read the blog post of the author, wanted to see what they wrote for a description. I didn’t realize it was on the top page of the App Store, so just did a search as what I thought was the quickest way to find it.

  7. Kerim Satirli says:
    December 24, 2008 at 4:24 am

    Interestingly enough it appears as if mimicking the sounds of your body can be quite … rewarding.

    Read more on TUAW.

  8. Jerry says:
    January 3, 2009 at 7:15 am

    One of the reasons I haven’t moved to the iPhone yet is because of the slim pickins of quality apps in the app store — compared to what I have been able to get for my WM5/6 device. Pretty much every category that I am interested in, WM5/6 offers much better solutions.

    But, no good Fart software for the WM5/6.