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Wozniak to Judge American Idol-Inspired Mac App Contest

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the idol-wastes-of-time dept.

cmundhe writes "Mac entrepreneur Phill Ryu today launched My Dream App, a new American Idol-inspired online competition where contestants can win the chance to have their killer app idea realized by experienced Mac developers. Over forty industry luminaries, including Apple founder Steve Wozniak, have signed on to My Dream App as guest judges to help contestants hone their ideas."

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  1. So much for Appley originality by DrHyde · · Score: 0, Troll

    So let me get this straight. There's a competition which is a derivative of a copy of a shit TV show. Thinking different was never so easy.

  2. Idea 1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If Windows Present, format hard disk, download Linux (Your Favourite distro) and install. I would like the first prize to be delivered to my home address.

  3. "open," eh? by Brunellus · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is anyone else seeing this as a naked promotional stunt? If it succeeds, then Apple will spin this ad nauseam as an example of the limitless creative genius of the masses enabled by Apple Computer. Apple: Open to New Thinking!

    This of course would ignore the irony that this sort of thing happens all the time in the Free/OpenSource community, under appropriately Free licenses. But the originator of this killer app would be sacrificing his project/idea/spec to the Moloch that is Apple, which would then take it and run with it.