If 30,000 Users Say This App Sucks, Why Is It #1?

Smack_Apple Last week we featured Punk’d apps … iPhone applications that are so freaking stupid, they seem to be playing a practical joke on Apple – will Apple really approve this total piece of garbage? Typically, Punk’d apps have extremely limited functionality … like the “Friday?” app … push a button and depending on what day of the week it is, the app displays “Yes It’s Friday” or “No It’s Not Friday”. Yeah it’s lame … but what’s lamer is that Apple approved it.

Not to beat a dead horse, but we came across what might be the ultimate App Store bottom feeder … an app that’s so bad, it makes you want to smack both Apple and the developer upside the head for offering such krapp.

From the makers of such fine apps as “BullCrap Lie Detector”, “My Sexy Watch”, Bloody Razor” and “Burping Farting Piano” … Inner Four, Inc. presents … the Mirror Free app. This app is simply a game changer! Launch Mirror Free and your iPhone screen goes completely blank (except for a frame) … then you’re supposed to carefully tilt the iPhone to see your reflection in the black background (patience, it takes practice). Flippin’ brilliant!

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Oh and by the way, did you notice the amount of ratings this sack of shit has received … over 30,000 in the span of 2-weeks since it was released July 1 – proudly displaying its
1 and a half star. Most developers would kill just to receive a quarter of Mirror Free’s ratings (sans the 1 and a half stars). It’s mind boggling that this app could generate such public outcry, that a consumer would actually feel compelled to take the time and apply a low rating. LOL … Mirror Free has the special ability to piss people off.

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Now the story gets even better. Take a quick minute to jump in the App Store, click the Top Free Apps category and have a look … (go ahead, check it out, we’ll wait until you get back)

Ok, back now? – good. Yeah, our feelings exactly … WTF IS THAT?!? …

Mirror Free Is The #1 Free iPhone Application!

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How the hell can an app receive over 30,000 krappy ratings be the #1 app? Apple’s user rating “secret formula” is seriously jacked up if this is the kind of nonsense it generates as #1. HELLO APPLE – over 30,000 users say it sucks – Mirror Free should be buried in App Store hell, not flipping the bird at hard working developers as it reigns King of free apps. Check your math Apple – it blows big time.

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Oh and let’s not even discuss Mirror Free’s in-app advertising … so who knows how much bank Inner Four is making. Is this really what the Revolutionary App Store is coming too … piss off enough people with your useless trash and be rewarded as #1? Good thing Baby Shaker was pulled, little sucker would still be sitting in the top spot.

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Change the “secret formula” Apple! Obviously quantity does not equal quality …
Mirror Free is a bad joke and so is your rating system.

July 16, 2009 | Filed Under Entertainment 

Comments

  • The_iGeek

    !!! NO WAY!! Hahaha, it looks like Apple's “Secret formula” is based on number of downloads, it always has been. Look at the many bad reviews on pocket god but ppl continued to download a for a while it was a RLY popular app. (no offense to pg, i love ya)

  • seedyh2008

    I saw it ,did not buy!* I wonder if they put a 'whatever' in your iPhone to see how dumb some iphoners are! This app store is just about ready to jump the shark if crap like this keeps comin' up!

    *I know, the apps free, I didn't 'bite'.

  • I guess people will buy any piece of Krapp as long as it's free.

  • It is sad to see this when there are good developers developing good games, and working hard to earn their downloads, and sales.

  • 0th3lo

    Just a note too, this is pinchmedia enabled…

    So not only is it krapp, its to report your iphone unique id, os version, if you have jailbroken and if the app is pirated to a 3rd party !!

    See : http://i-phone-home.blogspot.com/ for more details on apps that phone-home

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  • exactly! what message and/or incentive is Apple sending to those “legit”
    developers … just a total freaking joke, what a shame.

  • great … Big Brother living in your iPhone … blech!

  • johninner

    We were suprised too!!

    -John
    Inner Four

  • imissmyjuno

    I'm so glad you brought this up! I saw it up in the Top 25 the other day and thought, what the fuck is this goatshit, is Apple fucking kidding us here? Makes me disgusted.

    there ought to be a class action lawsuit against Apple and a new alternative application store created for users demanding fairness in ratings, a more flexible and speedy approval system, as well as a flagging craigslist-style functionality to tag the applications that obviously sink below the threshold level of brainleak fucking dumb.

  • Hey, thanks for the visit and your sense of humor! Indeed Mirror Free is meant to be a joke … yet rated #1 by Apple … which should be the point of the matter.

    Yeah … seems very strange that an app's ranking is simply based on the number of downloads and/or reviews. Everyone would agree … this is NOT the correct method and is the wrong incentive.

    But hey, good for you guys … if Apple ranked our app #1, WTF … we'd take it.

    LOL … love the new description … classic!!

  • yup … exactly the point … if some crap is downloaded 1million
    times, it does not equate to “good shit”. ironic … as if Apple has
    been Punk'd again, Mirror Free is a joke app, yet Apple deems it “good
    shit” and #1 … jokes on Apple.

  • The rankings are based on downloads not the ratings. The Apple rating system has serious flaws including asking for a rating only when the user deletes the app — very biased approach…

  • Very true regarding the “Rate Upon Delete” feature. We've always questioned
    the validity of such a rating since chances are if a user is deleting the
    app they are unsatisfied and thus a greater propensity to rate the app one
    star. Certainly seems to be skewing the results.

  • The rankings are based on downloads not the ratings. The Apple rating system has serious flaws including asking for a rating only when the user deletes the app — very biased approach…

  • Very true regarding the “Rate Upon Delete” feature. We've always questioned
    the validity of such a rating since chances are if a user is deleting the
    app they are unsatisfied and thus a greater propensity to rate the app one
    star. Certainly seems to be skewing the results.

  • Tcockburn

    The mirror app is a rip off!! I’m outraged that Apple would allow this! Let alone be connected with their name. STILL (2011)!