Dumbest iPhone App yet - WRAL

I saw the app below in the iPhone App store. Here you have a national
software store with a global reach and some little local media station
called WRAL thinks that someone outside their local market is
interested in streaming their local video, TV, weather, listening to
their radio etc. So they created an application just for their little
local TV station in the iTunes app store.

Give me a break!

Next you will have somebody like WGN trying the same thing. We don't
need one station wonders like that. We need more iPhone apps like
Wunder Radio that do it all any where in the world!

I think the iPhone WRAL app is overpriced. They should pay people to
install it!
Don't you agree?

WRAL (news)
from New Apps (Free)
WRAL 1.0

Category: News
Price: Free (iTunes)
http://appshopper.com/link/wral

Description:

When you're on the go, take WRAL.com with you on your iPhone! Get
Doppler radar images, traffic cameras, headlines, sports scores and
the forecast from WRAL. It's WRAL.com anytime, anywhere and it is
designed specifically for viewing on your iPhone.

FEATURES:
- Watch the latest news and forecast video.
- Customize your menu with your favorite category.
- Check the scores of the local teams.
- See the current weather conditions and tomorrowís forecast
- Check traffic before you hit the road.

WRAL

On Dec 31, 3:10*am, iPhone 3Gold <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw the app below in the iPhone App store. Here you have a national
> software store with a global reach and some little local media station
> called WRAL thinks that someone outside their local market is
> interested in streaming their local video, TV, weather, listening to
> their radio etc. So they created an application just for their little
> local TV station in the iTunes app store.
>
> Give me a break!
>
> Next you will have somebody like WGN trying the same thing. We don't
> need one station wonders like that. We need more iPhone apps like
> Wunder Radio that do it all any where in the world!
>
> I think the iPhone WRAL app is overpriced. They should pay people to
> install it!
> Don't you agree?
>
> WRAL (news)
> from New Apps (Free)
> WRAL 1.0
>
> Category: News
> Price: Free (iTunes)http://appshopper.com/link/wral
>
> Description:
>
> When you're on the go, take WRAL.com with you on your iPhone! Get
> Doppler radar images, traffic cameras, headlines, sports scores and
> the forecast from WRAL. It's WRAL.com anytime, anywhere and it is
> designed specifically for viewing on your iPhone.
>
> FEATURES:
> - Watch the latest news and forecast video.
> - Customize your menu with your favorite category.
> - Check the scores of the local teams.
> - See the current weather conditions and tomorrowís forecast
> - Check traffic before you hit the road.
>
> WRAL

Another dumb app..

Does anyone ever go to Charlottesville? Does anyone even know where
Charlottesville is?
Does anyone even care?

If so the second dumbest overpriced iPhone app in the last few minutes
is for you.

Charlottesville Tomorrow (news)
from New Apps (Free)
Charlottesville Tomorrow 1.0

Category: News
Price: Free (iTunes)

Description:

Launched in 2005, Charlottesville Tomorrow's mission is to inform and
engage the public by providing clear, non-partisan information and
research on land use, transportation, and community design issues with
the confidence an informed public will make decisions that will
protect and build upon the distinctive character of the
Charlottesville-Albemarle area.

Charlottesville Tomorrow focuses on four major activities:
1) information sharing to build community knowledge;
2) local election coverage;
3) research on quality of life issues; and
4) community engagement—ensuring the public knows when and how to get
involved in community decisions.

Utilizing e-mail alerts, online news summaries, and audio podcasts,
Charlottesville Tomorrow is the trusted source of in-depth coverage of
growth and development issues before local government.

This RSS reader was created at the Charlottesville, VA iPhone
Developers Unconference 2008 that took place on Dec. 06, 2008. The
event was put together by WillowTree Consulting Group, Inc. and was a
gathering of local and some national (errm, Boulder CO) folks that is
interested in learning about and sharing knowledge of the iPhone SDK.

Special thanks to the following people/companies for making the event
possible:

VibeAgent
Embarq
Perfect Flavor
WVTF

You can obtain the source code to this application as well as
contribute in its growth by contacting
simplerss@willowtreeconsulting.com or visit
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-simple-rss-aggregator/.

Charlottesville Tomorrow
http://appshopper.com/link/charlottesville-tomorrow

iPhone 3Gold wrote:
> I saw the app below in the iPhone App store. Here you have a national
> software store with a global reach and some little local media station
> called WRAL thinks that someone outside their local market is
> interested in streaming their local video, TV, weather, listening to
> their radio etc. So they created an application just for their little
> local TV station in the iTunes app store.
>
> Give me a break!


Granted!

On the other hand, National and selectable regional NOAA radar loops
and hurricane/tropical storm images have been useful, available and
displayable on PocketPC for years.

See: http://bevhoward.com/storm/ppcradL.htm

On 12/31/08 2:23 AM, in article
e2c6927e-6edf-4371-8ed9-1ceb362c6985...oglegroups.com, "iPhone
3Gold" <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 31, 3:10*am, iPhone 3Gold <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I saw the app below in the iPhone App store. Here you have a national
>> software store with a global reach and some little local media station
>> called WRAL thinks that someone outside their local market is
>> interested in streaming their local video, TV, weather, listening to
>> their radio etc. So they created an application just for their little
>> local TV station in the iTunes app store.
>>
>> Give me a break!
>>
>> Next you will have somebody like WGN trying the same thing. We don't
>> need one station wonders like that. We need more iPhone apps like
>> Wunder Radio that do it all any where in the world!
>>
>> I think the iPhone WRAL app is overpriced. They should pay people to
>> install it!
>> Don't you agree?
>>
>> WRAL (news)
>> from New Apps (Free)
>> WRAL 1.0
>>
>> Category: News
>> Price: Free (iTunes)http://appshopper.com/link/wral
>>
>> Description:
>>
>> When you're on the go, take WRAL.com with you on your iPhone! Get
>> Doppler radar images, traffic cameras, headlines, sports scores and
>> the forecast from WRAL. It's WRAL.com anytime, anywhere and it is
>> designed specifically for viewing on your iPhone.
>>
>> FEATURES:
>> - Watch the latest news and forecast video.
>> - Customize your menu with your favorite category.
>> - Check the scores of the local teams.
>> - See the current weather conditions and tomorrowís forecast
>> - Check traffic before you hit the road.
>>
>> WRAL
>
> Another dumb app..
>
> Does anyone ever go to Charlottesville? Does anyone even know where
> Charlottesville is?
> Does anyone even care?
>
Isn't that where Larry's Waffle House is?

iPhone 3Gold <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:8c69d21d-9253-4ab8-851b-
bff56900fe30@g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com:

> Subject: Dumbest iPhone App yet - WRAL
>

How soon we forget "I Am Rich".....(c;]

iPhone 3Gold <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:e2c6927e-6edf-4371-8ed9-
1ceb362c6985@t26g2000prh.googlegroups.com:

> Charlottesville Tomorrow
> http://appshopper.com/link/charlottesville-tomorrow
>
>

You don't suppose Apple is putting up all these individual apps so they can
brag about how mny apps are in the app store, do you? If they add 3000 TV
and radio station apps and 400 newspaper apps, that addes 3400 more "useful
apps" to the wonderful app store advertising.

News <News@Group.name> wrote in news:cKCdnYrpV5Bc-
8bUnZ2dnUVZ_qzinZ2d@speakeasy.net:

> http://bevhoward.com/storm/ppcradL.htm

In its VAST repertoire of video, image and sound codecs, can iPhone play
animated GIFs??!

Just checkin'....

Larry wrote:
> News <News@Group.name> wrote in news:cKCdnYrpV5Bc-
> 8bUnZ2dnUVZ_qzinZ2d@speakeasy.net:
>
>> http://bevhoward.com/storm/ppcradL.htm
>
> In its VAST repertoire of video, image and sound codecs, can iPhone play
> animated GIFs??!
>
> Just checkin'....
>

There's no confusing the iFruit with a business tool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ackekw7ePFo