If you can fart, you can earn $10,000
As Apple relaxes, stinkers escape
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iPhone developers have discovered that there's big money to be made in - as Mark Twain once described it - clearing one's nether throat. According to stats published on his website, developer Joel Comm's unsubtley named iFart Mobile is the current point-poot in a silent-but-deadly rise in the popularity of cyber-flatulence.
Either the apocalypse is drawing nigh, or shareholders of GlaxoSmithKline - makers of Beano - should sell, sell, sell.
Websites such as CNN.Money, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat have reported that iFart - the most popular of the new and gaseous gang of iPhone and iPod Touch "entertainment" apps - is pulling in around $10,000 per day.
The immediate reason for this surge in colonic purge is Apple's recent relaxation of its previously more-stringent App Store standards - a move that immediately inspired a concomitant relaxation of cybersphincters among developers of mobile "crapware."
Consider, if you will, the following representative digifarts now available for your edification and enjoyment (these links are to the iTunes App Store):
- iFart Mobile ($0.99): "Fart Machine for all Ages"
- Whoopie Cushion (free): "A knee jerk classic prank"
- Flatulence ($0.99): "Great for those quiet times in meetings"
- Mr. Poot! (free): "Shake Sensitive Fart Generator"
- uFart ($0.99): "You'll be the life of the party"
- Pull My Finger ($0.99): "Why must I always carry a phone, iPod, AND electric fart machine?"
We could go on. But that would be wrong.
It remains to be seen - or detected by some other, more olfactory sense - what other directions Apple's relaxation of its guidelines may lead, seeing as how even the mildest form of sexual titilation remains verboten. Maybe the App Store will next feature iPuke? Or iRidiculeEthnicMinorities? Only time will tell.
One thing's for certain, though: The success of iFart and its fellows is no mere poot in the pan. Expect further refinements of audio excellence and flatulential functionality - as Comm says, "Watch for v1.1 ... we’ve got some great new features that you are going to love."
We can hardly hold in our excitement...
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COMMENTS
@Chris C
Sorry bro but you opened the bag of worms. If all you do is write comments on El Reg how can you justify the $50+ on broadband when dialup would be fine? Then you can you can take the money you save and donate it to charity, if you do this I will be glad to donate this jar of change on my desk as well.
What you wont? Then stop ranting and frothing at the mouth.
@iRidiculeEthnicMinorities
I do this every night in Left 4 Dead, any time I play that game i change my name on Steam to "Kill The Blackie 1st Please TY" so I guess Im a racist now. Oh what im not? Yeah guess so since im not the only one who has done something like that in the game. Plus it is full of stereotypes.
Shoot me now Im a racist for playing L4D
@Chris C
"But how the fuck do you jump from there to racism?"
Hey, Apple only sells WHITE Macs, they must be racist! Mac keyboards have the letter K, so they must be affiliated to the KKK!!!
@Jared E.
One thing you can't afford to do in an infinite universe, is have a sense of proportion.
(RIP DNA)
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