Sad stat: There are 18 fart related apps in the iPhone App Store right now

18 is the number of iPhone applications the App Store showed me when we entered the search term ‘fart’. It’s true. There are already EIGHTEEN fart-related apps in the App Store. That just seems unbelievable to me. Maybe Apple’s new loose attitude wasn’t as good an idea as we thought.

Fart Apps

I know Apple recently loosened the restrictions on what sort of apps can be granted entry into the App Store – in particular, allowing for more NSFW sort of apps to be granted entry. That policy wasn’t so bad originally. I just somehow didn’t expect that quite such a tidal wave of flatulence apps would be unleashed so quickly, or that the people that can afford an iPhone and its data bill will be in a rush to download them.

Now you might ask why would anyone be searching for fart-related items in the first place.? Good question. It turns out a lot if there’s 18 of them already.

It might be worth keeping an eye out to see what other kinds of apps make it to the store that wouldn’t have under the old policy.

Posted on Dec 20th, 2008 by Andrew Wells in iPhone Apps | 2 Comments

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2 Comments to “Sad stat: There are 18 fart related apps in the iPhone App Store right now”

  1. on 20 Dec 2008 at 3:51 pm1Kim

    100s of people complained because Apple was NOT allowing “fart apps”.

    100s of people are now complaining because Apple *IS* allowing ‘fart apps’.

    I want my iphone to have powerful, bug-free, useful, smart software, instead.

  2. on 20 Dec 2008 at 10:40 pm2Paddy

    18 fart apps and not one tethering or mms or video camera apps …

    Apples priority’s are ????

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