venturebeat.com - 12/20/2008
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A new power is rising in Apple’s App Store. You might think it’s all the great games that have been coming out recently for the iPhone platform — but you’d be wrong. There’s a trend that rising much more quickly: Fart applications.
Just yesterday alone, I ...
ifartmobile.com - 12/24/2008
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ifartmobile.com —
Thank you to everyone who has purchased and
supported iFart Mobile for iPhone. We recognize that it’s...
just a novelty app, but don’t we need more laughter in times of economic crisis? We think so. The blogosphere and the media are writing about iFart ...
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iFart Mobile — #1 App on iTunes - The Premier iPhone ...
venturebeat.com - 12/24/2008
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venturebeat.com —
Apple’s App Store is currently experiencing a plague
of fart applications. Last week, I detailed one day...
in which at least 14 new fart apps were accepted into the store . And now upon a quick search, it looks like there are something around 50 ...
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iPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day
futuretap.com - 12/17/2008
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futuretap.com —
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Daily Apple: Wal-Mart, Crime Fighting Clouds, Lots of Gas, 3D Investments, & Snow Leopard [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... 14 Fart Apps. One Day. - How many flatulence applications can you approve in one day? 14, apparently. As with the landscape email bottleneck before it, this is clearly an example of a decision made at Apple HQ that yes, Pull My Finger was acceptable, as was anything else along those lines. Those stinky, hilarious lines. ...
A plague of iPhone flatulence
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... The floodgates of propriety having been breached, there was no holding back. Less than a week later, VentureBeat’s MG Siegler reports, Apple approved 14 similar apps in a single day. ...
Flatulence app for iPhone: The smell of sweet success
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... It's probably little surprise that there's been a recent proliferation of apps that produce the sounds of, um, nature since ...
EmotiFun! Emoji Enable Approved, Pulled by Apple [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... Sadly, it was not to be. Apple mysteriously pulled EmotiFun! from the app store after it was only available for a day. A move like this recalls the App Store of old, before the arrival of fart apps, ...
Mobile Developers Aim to Change the World
ReadWriteWeb —
... around the world. There are only 175 million active Facebook users. The iPhone has a fraction of the users that mobile in general has or that Facebook has, but it's got all kinds of apps. What kind? Apple approved 14 iPhone fart apps in one day recently and I know, mobile world, that aint the best you've got. ...
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