I knew there was a reason I didn't want an iPhone
This is the point in the day when I go hide under the covers, and pretend that technology doesn't exist.
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How timely . . . my company gave me an iPhone today. Needless to say, I won't be adding the Wobble app. I have plenty of wobbly boobs of my own.
Whenever there's great technology, some asshole will use it for a dumb or evil purpose. This is just one example of that. iPhone is amazing technology and Apple didn't create this application. An individual did. Oh, and how cute, you can use it on a penis too....(throwing up now).
Jessica, please don't hide under the covers :) Technology is good. Dumb asses that created Wobble are BAAAAAD...LOL. But in all seriousness, this is a really pathetic application that I think would make sense for 13 year old boys and girls. I can see kids laughing at this. But you know that lots of grown-up folk will probably get it too. That's the sad part.
the "one for the ladies," where the dude's package wiggles HAD THE TARGET SIZED TOO LARGE (the side of the plane that the model stood next to also Wobbled). i feel like i could go so many directions with that.
also throwing up now, though.
His breathing was unusually heavy when he showed that one, I thought.
Oh I know, I'm just hamming it up. ;) I still don't think I want the iPhone tho, I'm holding out for the Palm Pre!
Hey, it's not the iPhone's fault that some of its developers are assholes!! :-(
Meanwhile, I'm actually trying to become an iPhone developer, and I won't be making crap like this. When I get to the point that I'm able to consistently develop good apps, I'd love some ideas for apps from feminists! Seriously. There are a ton of sexist, offensive, or otherwise misogynistic apps out there (for other platforms, too, obviously); what's the antidote?
Just an idea that popped into my head -- it would be cool if there were some kind of app that made it super easy to post to Holla Back NYC with your iPhone so that you could do it almost in real time. Any other ideas?
Don't waste your time and effort making a 'feminist' app--screw that, it's boring and limited, you can do better and bigger ;-). If I had your skill, I think I'd focus on making the most breathtaking, fantastic ebook reader--Apple aren't big on those, so you only get them from developers so far. And I've looked, but I haven't yet found one that takes lots of different formats so you can buy whatever you please and read it on there (tbh it's hard to get a good sense of stuff as I don't own an iphone--yet!). I use adobe digital editions with my mac, and most ebooks I come across are available in that format among others, but there's no prospect of it coming out for iphone 'cause it uses flash--that fecks it then. Yeah, a really good, solid but simple ebook reader, with not too many features to make it a pain for light/beginning users, but enough to keep advanced users interested (which I've seen referred to as the main principle behind the design for Apple stuff), that would be seriously neat, and damn useful. I've thought of other stuff that I'd like to do if I had the aptitude for them, but I come back to this one often enough that I can remember it off-hand ;-)
And if you can get Notes to sync, it looks like lots of people will sell you their first born lol Seriously, developing a really good app, stable and useful to lots of people is much better in terms of feminism than, I dunno, a calendar with the big dates for NOW? lol. Who gives a FF.
oh, and while we're doing the commission-an-app thing (lol), it'd be nice if it could get the ebooks you already have on a single computer or account or whatever--so you don't have to pay multiple times for the same title :-)
I also have an app to commission. I actually have a sort of feminist app idea, although I agree with the basic message that making a good and useful app for everyone is most important.
Anyways. A while ago I was working on tracking my period, because I wanted to see how regular I was and be better able to predict it. I spent a long time searching online for some kind of desktop widget that would allow me to:
- enter in the days when I got my period (bonus points for light v. heavy flow)
- calculate the time between periods
- give me an estimated date for arrival of next period
- allow me to look at my record of previous menstruations
The only thing I could find were those things for men to know when their girlfriends are PMSing. The "terror alert" rip-offs. For those you just enter in a date and a cycle length and it doesn't do anything actually useful.
I was sure that I would be able to find something like that, given how many people do natural family planning and all that. I did find a widget where you could enter in your cycle length and it would tell you when you were most fertile. That might be a nice feature, but I was really just interested in basic period tracking.
Now obviously you can just use a regular calendar for that (and I did) but a widget would be nice. Something like that for the iPhone would be useful.
Sabriel, there's an app for Linux that keeps track of your periods. I don't remember what it was called, but it was available for download when I had Ubuntu installed so I'm assuming you could use it with any Debian-based distro.
I vaguely recall seeing a Menstrual Calender application for iPhone/Ipod Touch. And I'm pretty sure it was a free download as well.
I don't know of any widgets, but the website mycycle does a good job of keeping track of your periods and predicting the next one. You can set it to send you emails x amount of days before the predicted next period, too.
P.S. I probably ought to put a caveat that mycycle seems to be geared towards increasing your chances of conception by tracking ovulation, but it is perfectly good as just a general menstrual cycle tracker for those of us who aren't aiming to get pregnant as well.
My doula had an app on her blackberry to time the length and interval of contractions. I thought that was pretty cool.
There's quite a few actually! I just searched the App store, and found six, plus one ovulation cycles app. Here's the link to the free one:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=292760731&mt=8
To find the others, just go to the main page of the App store, look on the top left-hand under Quick Links, click Power search, and try 'period' in the keywords box. You don't need to add more search terms or criteria 'cause the number of results with just that is manageable, nothing insane lol.
And if you try it, let us know if it's any good and post a review on the site! I'm seriously ogling iphones now, and was definitely thinking about stashing one of those in there
This is sort of off topic, but I also have an app to recommend. I actually have a sort of feminist app idea, although I agree with the basic message that making a good and useful app for everyone is most important.
Anyways. A while ago I was working on tracking my period, because I wanted to see how regular I was and be better able to predict it. I spent a long time searching online for some kind of desktop widget that would:
1.allow me to enter in the days when I got my period (bonus points for light v. heavy flow)
2. calculate the time between periods
3. show me me an estimated date for arrival of next period
4. keep a record of previous menstruations
The only thing I could find were those things for men to know when their girlfriends are PMSing. The "terror alert" rip-offs. For those you just enter in a date and a cycle length and it doesn't do anything actually useful. I'm talking about a period tracker and predictor.
I was sure that I would be able to find something like that, given how many people do natural family planning. I did find a widget where you could enter in your cycle length and it would tell you when you were most fertile. That might be a nice feature, but I was really just interested in basic period tracking.
Now obviously you can just use a regular calendar for that (and I did) but a widget would be nice. Something like that for the iPhone would be useful. All it would have to be is a calendar with some basic calculation functions programmed in.
*sigh*... once again, I'm embarrassed to work in IT.
wow..what a waste of time, space and brain power...i am sorry, but i did not find this wobbling attractive whether it was a female or male. Plus, this is such a waste of time..oooooo...i can make a butt wobble..yippeee!!
Pure and utter bullshi!
Yeah, that's not an official Apple thing, right there. No different than blaming Windows because somebody makes a sleazy porn game.
However. . .he thinks that's "realistic"? Seriously, has he never seen breasts before? Much less asses, which are even less realistic.
Feels like a ...bag of ..sand.
I have an iphone and there will be no Wobble on mine. I'll stick to lolcats.
Not that I want to encourage the developer, but what about WobblingCats with their heads bouncing up and down when you shake the phone?
Yuck!! I'm such a geek, and love the iPhone, but I must keep this knowledge out of the hands of my equally geeky (and boob-loving) male partner. I'm sure he would want it for his birthday. Gotta be honest though, I kind of giggled when I saw the demo..."realistic" movement? I think not. We'll keep working on our "surf report" app for the iPhone, where you can touch a map of anywhere in the world and get a surf report and live feed if available. THAT would be cool.
I find it interesting that it is activated by an up/down shaking motion...
That is just disgusting. I would slap the snot out of my boyfriend if he got one (not that he would, but during my rants about the objectification of women, I will tell him that anyway!).
Way to turn everything into sex. Now my damn cell phone has to have f*cking porn on it. Could you imagine if some guy took pictures of you crossing the street and made everything bounce?
At least now I MIGHT know what is going on if a guy is sitting next to me on a subway with his hands in his pockets, shaking his iPhone up and down.
And even though they had a guy on one of the photos? I don't get hot and bothered over a penis that bobs up and down. This is so totally marketed for men who need yet another tool to jack off. Even with the gratutious male photo. (Although it might be for gay men, and I'd like to assume that they would be turned off by that too? It just looked TOO fake).
"I would slap the snot out of my boyfriend if he got one (not that he would, but during my rants about the objectification of women, I will tell him that anyway!)."
So you are okay with hitting someone as a means of expressing displeasure?
Move along folks, nothing to see here.
Okay, so joking around doesn't work here too well...
What? Ohhhhhhh, I get it! You wanted to see if you could make his face go 'wugga-wugga-wugga' in slow motion, just like the application!
Never mind....
Go easy on the poor guy. Judging by his breathing, he's probably stuck at home and tethered to an oxygen tank.
Ayaa -_- Well, coming from a gaming background, I am certainly no stranger to breast physics (Dead or Alive anyone?), so things like this hardly faze me. That said, this is pretty stupid, and even sleazy males will only find it amusing for about 10 seconds before they return to actual porn.
I kinda want it, so I can download a picture of EX-president Bush and turn him into a bobblehead.
That is so retarded! Obviously that loser would not get a swimsuit-porn model in person.
LOL about the Bush bobblehead and "At least now I MIGHT know what is going on if a guy is sitting next to me on a subway with his hands in his pockets, shaking his iPhone up and down."
How low can technology go???
"retarded" is an offensive term when used as a synonym for "bad".
don't use it, please.
(surprised nobody else here commented on that.)
did anyone else find it nasty that you pinch the wobble areas to resize them?
Well, why else would they put an accelerometer and multi-touch technology into the darn thing? (blinks innocently)
Sheesh. What won't the sophomoric mind come up with next?
Jemaine! NOOOOOooooooo! Stop shilling such awful applications!
(The voice is Jemaine from "Flight of the Conchords.")
I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
But it made me think that this was meant to be a joke - specifically a joke making fun of the ridiculous things that people will actually do with technology.
Jemaine! NOOOOOooooooo! Stop shilling such awful applications!
(The voice is Jemaine from "Flight of the Conchords.")
Well, it's pretty much universally the case that pornographers are the first to exploit new communication technologies and figure out ways to generate revenues with them. It's not the technology's fault, obviously, but I do think there's at least a small question about the ways in which technology enables problematic behaviors, right? On the one hand it's true that guns don't kill people, people kill people, but on the other hand it's also true that guns allow people to do a lot more damage than they would otherwise. I think there are echoes of that argument that apply here, as well.
You can have my iPod when you pry it from my, uh, trembling, sweaty, encrusted ...oh, forget it.
Yes, the extra jiggle on the guy's thigh was...disturbing. He probably worked out so long to get rid of the jiggle, and with one mistaken point, it's back...
The part that creeps me out is the encouragement to use this on pictures you have already--this paranoia is gonna get bad when people are taking pictures at a party.
I know I wanted to say something about the impressiveness of the technology (motion sensitivity amazes me)...but I can't seem to focus...I think the four-boob synchronized wobble hypnotized me...
'the paranoia is gonna get bad'
I don't see why it should though, because hey, when you get your picture taken, there's always a chance somebody might, I dunno, take out your head and photoshop it on an embarrassing picture, or set it up on the wall and throw darts at it, whatever lol. I mean, you can't exactly go through life worrying about that can you? Especially now that there's a proliferation of cameras, especially the ones on cell phones that are pretty quiet and unobtrusive (unlike hauling out a great big SLR!)
Not to mention, I really don't think this app is going to be successful enough that it will grow into such a big trend. Like others have said, it looks like a pretty boring app :-)
Not to mention you're going to look like a complete moron standing around shaking your ipod like that all the time. People might get the wrong idea...
On the plus side, if you jossle you ipod enough you can fuck up the drive (which has happened to me TWICE)...so maybe it will cost the asshats to use it some money.
On the plus side, if you jossle you ipod enough you can fuck up the drive (which has happened to me TWICE)...so maybe it will cost the asshats to use it some money.
That can certainly happen with the larger iPods, but not with the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, or iPod Shuffle - they don't have hard drives, they have flash drives, with no moving parts. No spinning disk means no crashing when you shake it.
Did that happen with the classic or with one of the other kinds? Just asking 'cause I know that might happen with the ipod classic (the ones with the huge capacity), but not with the touch, nano, shuffle or iphone, because these four, the memory inside is flash-based (like on the little USB memory drives that you put your files on to transfer between computers), whereas the ipod classics have regular hard drives that work just like the one in your laptop (actually a bit smaller-2.5" vs 3.5--but still, they work the same way, magnetic, and liable to skip if shaken, or just die with prolonged shaking; which is why they don't recommend the classic for running or the gym).
But the flash memory is much hardier and doesn't skip or have problems with being shaken, which is why you're able to do cool stuff like use shaky action (accelerometer), or run with them. 'course, they're more expensive per GB, and don't come in the huuuuge storage capacities (yet), so people just decide whether masses of capacity or maximum portability 's more important!
The first what the IPod Classic, the second was the video Ipod. They were both large capacity (I used to carry around 30 GB of data...what can I say). I didn't realize the Iphones were flash drives. I've since moved to the blackberry standard out of frustration with apple in general.
I actually did a presentation on a round table panel about a month ago when I talked about the Sarah Palin action figure and the Hilary Clinton nutcracker being devices which reinforced the culture of rape by allowing men to think that they have the right to control women bodies. This seems like version 2.0.
BUT emmakitty, women could do it to which makes it completely FINE!!!
Ignore the fact that some men already take inappropriate photos of women on the train or standing on the street or that there are a thousand website devoted to these surreptitious photos.
It's certainly not harassment to take a photo of some woman without her consent and then virtually fondle her breasts! That's just good clean fun.
/sarcasm
LOL. OK, the one with the male model's package wobbling was pretty funny.
I love how the douche calls them "compositions," like pieces of art, when they're just stupid juvenile amusements.
Unsurprisingly, the dude is a complete mouth-breather.
I'm not sure this man has ever seen genuine breasts before in his life, if he thinks this tool is an apt simulation. Why anyone would download this for free, let alone pay $.99 for it is truly beyond my comprehension.
I've seen people object to words like "lame" - I've always wondered why "mouth-breather" has to be an insult.
Only half joking. (And I never expected *that* to be my first post.)
- A feminist mouth-breather who didn't realize something was different until her dentist pointed it out.
Maybe he's spent a fair amount of time in a low-gravity environment?
Or wait, isn't that the way gravity works in Australia? Everything's upside down there...
(Sorry, this thing is just too easy to make fun of.)
I have to say that I am really impressed by the technology but I feel so sad for those will actually use it. I mean, pathetic doesn't even begin to describe it.
Yeah, I got an iPod touch...
The wobble application is a pretty low blow.
But I do however, recommend the dancing banana singing Peanut Butter Jelly Time application.
Hours of entertainment I tell you!
I'm actually pretty amused that someone took the time to develop that. Or even thought to do it, for that matter.
I'm sure most people who download it will just do it as a joke. And I'm almost positive it doesn't work as well as demonstrated anyway.
I know it's quite horrible of me, but I LIKE this. I imagine it could be quite fun to put a Wobble on a guy's crotch . . .
But seriously, is that really Jemaine Clement doing the talking? Because it sounds so like him. Hmmm.
Yeah, Jemaine. That's why I thought this was for sure a hoax.
I highly doubt it's Jermaine from FOTC, as he's a New Zealander.
The guy in the video has an Australian accent.
Anyway, I have an iphone, which I mainly use to make calls, take photos, record noise and check Feministing updates :)
Wow, that's really creepy. They have an app like that for women right?
I seriously, no joke, think this is my ex-boyfriend, who is now married with a daughter. That is so gross and stupid. Good for him if he's so successful, but I'd rather do something good for the world!
I guess men can't get enough of
masturbation--they have to have an
excuse like this app to simulate
the act.
It's kind of funny how it's okay to make sweeping generalizations about men here, ie."I guess men can't get enough of masturbation--they have to have an excuse like this app to simulate the act.", but if I were to make a similar statement ("Why do women play so many head games?") I'd probably be crucified. I have this app. It's fun to make bobble heads out of my friends.