My Dream App For the Mac

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 23, 2006 @04:39AM from the with-celebrity-judges-but-no-simon-cowell dept.

Steve Streza writes "My Dream App, a Mac contest in search of the next killer app, features Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki, and Xbox and zune creator J. Allard as guest judges for its final round. Visitors can vote for their 3 favorite app ideas, and receive free licenses to both Overflow 2 and the Apple Design Award winning PhotoPresenter. Voting is open until Tuesday at 8:00 PM EDT, at which point the three winners will be announced. The winners, who will have emerged from an initial pool of more than 2,700 entrants, will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application and earn royalties on sales. "

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No teledildonics? by bobalu · 2006-10-23 04:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Sheesh, you call those choices? Give the people what they really want!

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Hmm by darkchubs · 2006-10-23 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

exchange a trillion dollar software idea for a legal copy of those other trillion dollar apps? Do I at least get a bumper sticker?
1. Re:Hmm by i_should_be_working · 2006-10-23 05:01 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yes, and it says:
  
  I made Jobs (more) rich and all I got was a program and this lousy bumper sticker.
2. Re:Hmm by UbuntuDupe · 2006-10-23 05:16 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeah, I don't understand the reward. Is it some kind of joke? The program is released as shareware, and you get the royalties? Royalties on ... zero revenues? That kinda reminds me of the joke, "If you're gonna work me like a slave, you're gonna pay me like a slave, goddamnit!"
  
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3. Re:Hmm by CokeBear · 2006-10-23 05:32 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I have to agree here. I have lots of great ideas, but no programming skillz.
  
  Any young Woz types around here? I'll be the Jobs to your Woz. (but without all the yelling, I promise)
  
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Come to think of it. by darkchubs · 2006-10-23 04:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Im willing to offer up licensed copies of Linux. IF you can provide me with the next killer app.
1. Re:Come to think of it. by Rob+T+Firefly · 2006-10-23 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Im willing to offer up licensed copies of Linux. IF you can provide me with the next killer app.
  Haha, you're just making the Linux company rich, you n00b! I just get the 0-day Linux w4r3z off Pirate Bay. They are even patched to get rid of Linux Genuine Advantage, so you'll never get caught!
  
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How about... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-23 04:47 · Score: 2, Funny

A shareware nag-screen remover?
already taken care of by krell · 2006-10-23 05:12 · Score: 4, Funny

No doubt Apple's new cell phone offering will include vibrate mode.

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Almost edible by krell · 2006-10-23 05:15 · Score: 5, Funny

"its Indian spam"

The curry-sauce makes it a lot easier to choke down.

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Re:The assimilation of Apple users is near complet by Rational · 2006-10-23 05:47 · Score: 4, Funny

Nah, that's pretty weak. Read John Dvorak's columns to learn to troll Mac users successfully.

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Re:I want more Lesbian Strapon porno. Details here by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-23 06:13 · Score: 2, Funny

Your links did not work. Can you post them again?
Re:ipod by salzbrot · 2006-10-23 06:59 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, man. And I am stuck on linux because I really need to run Word and there is no WINE for windows yet. Dang it!
Re:Killer app? by RAMMS+EIN · 2006-10-23 07:03 · Score: 2, Funny

``Maybe if they have a contest for a 'killer app', one of the choices should actually BE a 'killer app'.''

You mean like porting Reiser4 to Mac OS X? ;-)

That might actually get it adpoted quicker than trying to get it into Linux. :-(

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Re:Woz is out there, man! by monoqlith · 2006-10-23 12:23 · Score: 2, Funny

Just my luck. The one time I falsely accuse a towering figure of 20th century technology of using drugs, he's actually reading my comments.

Sigh.

Is there nowhere that I can turn where I can safely slander people?