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A NEW APP that could have ushered in a new era of whoopee cushion pranks has been rejected by Apple.
According to Cult of the Mac, the aptly named Fart Watch was designed for the Apple Watch to be used alongside an iPhone – simply place the phone near to where the victim will be sitting, and hit the “Fart” button on the watch.
However, the company’s new smartwatch is a rather classy affair. Prices for the sleek device start at around €320, before spiralling to more than €9,000 for a limited-edition gold version.
And Apple doesn’t seem too keen for people to be using it to make fart jokes.
In a response to the developer, an App Store moderator said:
We noticed that your Apple Watch app is primarily a fart app. We do not accept fart apps on Apple Watch.
Apple’s latest device was released last week with limited fanfare. Critics haven’t been hugely impressed. MacWorld said it’s beautiful but not a must-have, while TechRadar bemoans its poor battery life and limited selection of apps adding that although it is a good smartwatch, it’s “still not enough to convince us this is a real category”.
An Irish release has yet to be announced.
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I want to be a fly on the wall in the meeting of high powered executives of the world’s largest technology company hashing out the official policy on ‘fart apps’
If you’re imaging a bunch of grown men barefoot in shorts and tee-shirts all trying desperately and ironically to look nonconformist while sitting in a boardroom and taking themselves way too seriously, you’re on the right track.
Huh ?
Look at you… Assuming they would all be men. I’m sure there would be at least one token when at the Fart App summit.
*woman
Same thing, Drew.
Well, im definately not buying one now.
Definitely that is.
Defiantly?
More hot air from apple…
Silly gadget .. Won’t take off
Said nobody ever
No, it won’t. It is already sold out.
It already looks like fart.
Ridiculously unrealistic fart sounds. Couldn’t they at least have recorded real farts?
Stick the watch up your arse ala Christopher Walken in that scene from pulp fiction.
He died of dysentery…..
That’s gas!
It should be noted that for the watch to work, you have to already have the expensive Iphone as well.
That and the battery only lasts a day also.
No you don’t, you can use an old iPod Touch or, as I do, a two year old hand-me-down iPhone that you get for free when somebody else renews their contract and gets a free upgrade. You youngsters have no imagination!
Good to hear about the ipod that you can thus get some use out of the watch – even if its not the full range of the phone. The point is that on its own, it severely limited in use.
You can only use iPod touch or iPhones with the latest software update which is iOS 8. So old iPod touch depending on model and iPhone 4 will not work with Apple Watch. :)
The problem with this product is that it is ugly, in my opinion watches are supposed to be elegant, Stylish and round. The Motorola watch is much nicer.
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