MODERN APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Sent this out a while ago, but have recorded here for posterity.

Press Release: iPhone Developer denies being a 4 (Munter).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sep 24, 2009

Auckland, New Zealand – Andy Griffiths, lead developer of the new iPhone application iRateEm has denied that he is the fat bloke seen in the applications screen shots and that he rates a 4 (Munter).

Despite being short enough to be cast as an extra in Snow White and weighing over 85kg, the NZ based Brit stated "There’s no way I’m a 4, that’s so unfair. I’m at least a 6 (Not Bad) or a 7 (I would).

The new application, iRateEm, was released earlier this week and is designed to allow users to take pictures of people they see on a night out and pass them around their mates, taking turns to score their attractiveness. The loser is the player whose score is the furthest from the group average.

Although the game has received criticism from some quarters for encouraging a shallow view of people based on physical attractiveness, Griffiths is unrepentant.

“If it’s shallow to want to take a picture of a perfect stranger and immediately subject them to a judgement by my pissed up mates based on how big their booty is, then I hold my hand up and admit to being shallow. In reality iRateEm was actually conceived as a means of fostering better communications between the sexes and promoting peace and harmony for all, and there aren’t many better ways of doing that than passing around a picture of your mate Daves’ mum, who’s at least an 8 (Oh Yeah)”

Whilst the application has been praised for being well designed and written, there is strong competition from within the iTunes AppStore. Griffiths, however, is bullish.

“You’ve got to be joking, have you seen our main competitors developer? He’d be lucky to rate a 3 (Moooose) and quite frankly I have him down as a 2 (Double Bagger). Don’t tell me that a bloke with a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp is going beat us!”

iRateEms’ features:

- Take pictures of people you like (or not!)
- Use existing pictures from your photo collection
- Save collections of pictures as sets for future use
- Customise text descriptions of each score and an insult for the loser

Pricing & Availability
iRateEm is available for purchase for US $1.99 on the iPhone App Store

Update: This was picked by Krapps

We’ve just submitted Clocks, our multi time zone alarm clock to the app store. Fingers are now firmly crossed!

Clocks basically grew out of the work we we’re doing for the job timer app. Basically, once you’ve gone to the trouble of creating a nice looking updating LCD display, it seemed a shame not to use it.

I’d already considered creating a Rosebrae version of the bedside clock that’s popular on the app store, but it was the specific need to have multiple time zones available at a glance that gave me the idea.

With family in at least 3 widely differing time zones now, I wanted something to help me keep track of their time, and I thought a fusion of that with a bedside clock app might be an idea. Certainly it’s an app that I use everyday and every night.