Sound Grenade: top 10 in USA AppStore and “it’s shit” (says its developer)

Posted by james on January 21st, 2009 at 07:44pm Comments

Sound Grenade is an iPhone app you might have noticed in the top 10 of the USA AppStore. The whole purpose of this app is to annoy everyone around you by repeating the same sound for eternity (or rather until you switch it off or run out of battery… or someone hurts you real bad and breaks your iPhone).

Now, here’s the funny part: its developer wrote on his blog that he considers this app to be shit and can’t really understand why it is so popular.

High Gloss writes: “The goal of my app was to create a tool for people to annoy others. The end product was Sound Grenade, which is a really terrible app, one button turns a sound on or off, period. For 20 minutes work, I thought it would be interesting to take the ride. You can imagine my shock when I checked the App Store page on the first day to see 50 glowing reviews. 2 days later, another 50 reviews. 5 days later, Sound Grenade is in the top ten free apps almost everywhere in the world.

Yesterday I had over 100,000 downloads. 106,831 to be exact. Of an app that has one Button, and one picture.

So how did this happen? The iPhone is the coolest phone in the world, don’t people who are cool have them? And logically, don’t these cool iPhone users download other cool products. No. Apparently not. Apparently there are people called consumers that like to consume and they want crap like Sound Grenade.”

Well, if only all developers were as modest!

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