Of course, such inconsistencies on the App Store are nothing new, but that doesn’t make them any less frustrating for developers. The only consolation is that Comm can add a landscape mode to the existing iPhone app, but it wouldn’t be a native HD version.Ĭomm points out the inconsistency of the App Store review process, noting that similarly themed apps like Farting Zombies have made it onto the iPad. Rather, it’s a lack of functionality, which is harder to change. This time though, the application isn’t being blocked on the grounds of profanity or crudeness. When the App Store first launched Apple was routinely blocking applications like iFart and Pull My Finger, until it finally opened the floodgates to these ‘joke’ applications in December 2008. Joel Comm, CEO of iFart’s developer InfoMedia, says that it took a month of waiting before he got ahold of an Apple representative, who told Comm that he’d have to add quite a lot of functionality to the application to have it approved for the iPad - sound boards, even well-known ones, don’t cut it.Ĭomm has been through this before. In fact, it sold 100,000 copies in its first 14 days (reaching #1 on the App Store), once ranked in the top twenty iPhone applications of all time, and has over 20,000 reviews to date. But iFart isn’t some unknown application. IFart isn’t the first application to be hit by this arbitrary rule - we’ve previously written about apps like QuackPhone, which made your iPhone sound like a duck, and was rejected on similar grounds. This, despite the fact that the app will literally shake your iPad when it emits a ‘bombardier’ or ‘brown mosquito’ (the iPad’s speakers vibrate a lot). Unfortunately (at least for fart-lovers), the application has hit a snag on its way to the iPad: iFart HD has been rejected on the grounds that it has “minimal user functionality”. The app and similar ‘gross’ applications like it have gone on to become immensely popular, proving that the general public has an insatiable and somewhat disturbing appetite for recorded flatulence. Back in December 2008, when the App Store was still less than half a year old, I wrote a post about an application that has now become something of an iPhone staple: iFart.
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