Apple recently trumpeted the news of how the iTunes App Store, an open marketplace for software developers to craft applications used on the iPhone and iPod Touch, just hit its first birthday . And my, how it's grown over one calendar year - when introduced it provided about 500 applications. Today? 55,000 and counting.
Of course, in a sample size that big, you're gonna find some applications that border on genius (I basically can't imagine my world without the MLB At-Bat application, particularly now that it provides streaming video of White Sox games direct to my phone), some that are superfluous at best, and more than a few that are downright stupid. To wit:
Fortune Magazine's 10 Dumbest iPhone Apps
The amazing thing is that a number of these colossal wastes of time and energy (on the part of the developers, to say nothing of the saps who would actually think that they were useful) is that most of them charge for their service. You're reading it right, there apparently is a healthy, robust market of people who will pay for the right to download a file that will make it appear as if your phone has a zipper. Personally, I would've paid to see the thought process of the guys in the software department who thought up #8 on the list. I'm not gonna spoil it with my own snarky commentary, you'll just have to click and read for yourself.
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