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PosiMotion unveils unfortunately-named iPhone app
PosiMotion is planning a suite of applications for the iPhone to assist in everything from navigation to a social network for iPhone users.
Its flagship product, hilariously named G-Spot (ask your parents), features a compass and tool to determine your latitude and longitude using the iPhone 3G's built-in GPS antenna. According to the press release, you will be able to find G-Spot at the App Store on July 11 "for an affordable $1.99."
Don't forget to visit the G-Spot website, where you can download high-resolution G-Spot pictures, and get more G-Spot information. (Sorry. Couldn't resist. I'll stop now.)
Anywho, PosiMotion's other products include G-Park, which helps you find your car in large parking lots with step-by-step directions back to your vehicle. G-Fi is a small hardware device touted as the "world's first" mobile GPS network router, adding GPS capability to any nearby WiFi-enabled device. G-Life, which is vaporware thus far, will be a social networking application for iPhone users with an undefined feature set. The company will also publish a series of games.
Curiously, the company is also featuring G-Minds, a "publishing program" that has been "pre-certified by Apple to test applications and distribute them on Apple's App Store." It sounds like a sort of consignment program for developers not as-yet accepted into the App Store program.
Thanks, Yoli!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Alex said 8:12PM on 7-07-2008
$2 to find your own g spot, bargain!
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Rodney said 8:17PM on 7-07-2008
This is a fake. Trust me - it won't get onto the App store.
As a developer, there are things on the iPhone you can't break - that image shows it has red buttons on the bar down the bottom. According to Apple, these must retain the standard UITabBar, and that must be blue icons, as the SDK forces any image to appear blue.
This is very very unlikely that apple has approved this...
As for their publishing program approved? So's mine... so what...??? Its called the Apple iPhone Dev Program... they paid $99 and were one of the 4,000... big deal.
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Ben King said 8:17PM on 7-07-2008
Au contraire, that may just be the greatest named iPhone app.
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geochick said 8:19PM on 7-07-2008
Haaah! They did this on purpose... Bad to de bone!
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j.holtslander said 8:27PM on 7-07-2008
Awesome name. It'll get people talking and curious. Unfortunately I'm sure Googling for it would yield some NSFW results. LOL
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collide007 said 8:32PM on 7-07-2008
I'm not being funny, but this app has terrible graphics, whats with the ugly bevel an emboss and red outer-glows, ugh! It's seems to me so far, that all the apps I won't use (like Daylite Touch), look the best. I don't mind paying more for an aesthetically pleasing application.
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Louis said 4:35AM on 7-08-2008
I agree, they really made the graphics as ugly as possible. What about a Safari themed compass?
collide007 said 3:45AM on 7-10-2008
Yeah, that be interesting.
collide007 said 8:35PM on 7-07-2008
I'm not being funny, but this app has terrible graphics, whats with the ugly bevel an emboss and red outer-glows, ugh! I hope Rodney is right! It's seems to me so far, that all the apps I won't use (like Daylite Touch), look the best. I don't mind paying more for an aesthetically pleasing application.
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Rodney said 9:38AM on 7-08-2008
Yeah, man, I am right... I wanted to get around it too... till I realised what they were doing, and then it all made sense. That stuff's under SDK, but what they have done, unless they have broken the Tab Bar rules via hack, is just photoshop that one up.
This is not real - or at least - Apple allowed real.
They would NEVER approve this. It reeks of people who deliberately broke a fundamental rule, and if they do that, they will hack them all for their own benefit. Apple will see that and reject them from publishing immediately.
JKT said 8:39PM on 7-07-2008
I agree with Ben--this naming is 100% intentional. The proof? "You can find the g-spot..." marketing line. C'mon--they're playing it for everything it's worth with writing like that.
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Robert Palmer said 8:45PM on 7-07-2008
Actually that's my phrasing (for comedic effect) ... the press release only had the quoted portion of the sentence with a different phrasing.
Nothing in the press release otherwise suggested this was an "in" joke. Not at least to me. If they did it on purpose, then kudos to them. Personally, I think it's another TrekStor "iBeat Blaxx" situation.
You can read the press release yourself, even:
http://xrl.us/kkay2
Shawn said 8:41PM on 7-07-2008
Er...did they do any kind of searching about that name first? Even for existing software?
GSpot Codec Information Appliance: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
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Matt said 8:47PM on 7-07-2008
I looked all over but I couldn't find the G-Spot software.
I think it's a myth.
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Caitlin said 8:50PM on 7-07-2008
That was really funny. Totally just scored TUAW some points in my proverbial book.
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Adam said 8:57PM on 7-07-2008
Considering the company is called "(Posi)motion", I think G-Spot is very appropriate ;).
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(01) said 9:05PM on 7-07-2008
Oh man, $2 is totally worth it for me to be out in public and tell people I have to check my g-spot to figure out where we are.
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Nate said 11:41PM on 7-07-2008
Finally! A way to find her G-spot on the iPhone! You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this...
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Think Adrian said 1:11AM on 7-08-2008
and Glife is allready a social networking site...
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Jerry Jones said 4:12AM on 7-08-2008
This company sent me an email regarding my app, and wants to "help me" get my app in the app store. Total scam if you ask me.
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