Battery Boost Pro - App Store Boner?

[shigzeo]

Original article: App Store Boner? Battery Boost Pro

What do you think? An app which 'features' tips to boost your battery, all of which are online for free and from one spot: Apple.com. Is it fair to use the App Store as an advertising campaign for apps which do not perform any of their advertised titles?

Battery Boost Pro currently costs 0.99$, but will go up by 100% after its introductory period is over. The title is pretty easily used to propel it to the App Store's echelons upper echelons, but it offers nothing in the way of native function for the iDevice. In fact, its fitting into the 'utilities' section of the App Store is as short-sighted by Apple's review process as anything.

[NineSwords]

There are more apps like that on the app store that only show some tips and tricks of the UI (like our board here) and they're a long time on the most downloaded list of the german app store.

Makes you think about why I wasn't audacious enough to do something like that myself.

[shigzeo]

Yes, there are too many of these apps - and Apple, for its own goodness shouldn't allow bloody apps which make use of no functions at all and display nothing more than text call themselves 'utilities'.

[juubee]

I downloaded the lite version and for the most part I know all of them already.. but really, how many other tips can there be? >.>"