Five years ago, I toted a Palm W around. It did everything. The bugger took appointments, calculated mortgages, edited pictures and offered friendly sex advice with PalmaSutra. I got to try at least 10 of the recommendations!
That wasn’t all. The Palm W carried my grocery list, played Pacman and served as a flashlight. On its breaks, the Palm W even took calls and let me keep in touch with my loved ones. Indeedy do, almost all the apps that came with it did something useful. Visit freewarepalm.com and check for yourself. You’d feel that nothing can come close.
Right now, the Palm’s gone, supplanted by the technologically superior iPhone. The iPhone does everything the Palm did- but much more efficiently (and more enticingly). Standard iPhones come with 8GB whereas the Palm only boasted 32MB. You can cram a horde of applications- free and paid in the iPhone. Truly, who needs a netbook when you have an iPhone in your back pocket. But there’s a problem.
About 50% of every iphone app I installed reeked! Visit the iTunes store and you’ll see what I mean. There are thousands of apps. Some cost $1. Some cost $50. Most of the applications I ran did very little other than take space and annoy my OS. Take for instance that software that records your Pooping habits. Take a crap then upload it to your database for sharing! Now how useful is that? Then there’s this SexMaster software that rates how good you are in bed. Hmmm… Let me see. The algorithm probably calculates how many times your partner convulsed before giving you a score (the app has to run next to you while doing the deed). Then there’s this monstrosity that simulates farting sounds. (it doesn’t even sound like fart!)
Geez. With great technological advancement comes amazingly inane devolutions of software. Tell me… have people run out of ideas what to make??
