People are idiots!!

It's perfect! It's ballin! I'm a dumbass!

The other day I reviewed an app called myBatteryLife and emailed the developer to let him know. In my email, I told the developer that he could fire back in the comments if I was totally off-base in assuming that his app is nothing but a bunch of images showing static battery life estimates, and I haven’t heard a word from him. Why? Cuz I’m right!!

I’m 99.9% sure his app is just a bunch of images that get displayed one at a time based on how much juice is left in the battery (estimates are pre-determined based on Apple’s battery life claims), yet somehow almost none of the people leaving reviews in the App Store have figured this out! They’re leaving comments about accuracy and how useful it is and how it’s such a great idea. Umm, YEAH, it’s a great idea if it actually calculates battery life, but it doesn’t.

In fairness to KVapps, they never make any claims about what exactly is happening within the app to magically figure out how much battery power remains, but the sales pitch is still pretty sneaky and deceptive in the functionality that it implies… the word “calculate” is actually used in the App Store description (”…to calculate the remaining hours and minutes…”) and it even makes reference to other apps not being accurate.

I know developers love recruiting their friends to leave fake praise in the App Store, but most of these reviews look like they’re the real deal. Even people who say they hate the app are fooled by it. I guess all I can say is WOW!!!! I’m not sure whether I should be LOLing or weeping for humanity’s growing stupidity.