Seeking to Understand

I’ve been getting blog comments as well as emails like this:

You need to be more descriptive about what each app does so I don’t have to come to the blog or google around for details.

Generally, I have not been responding to those emails because I didn’t quite know what to say and they were a small minority of the messages I’ve been receiving. However, it’s only the second day and it seems to be becoming a trend, so to all who may have sent me mail or posted blog comments about this, I say the following:

…you could just try it and find out yourself what it does, yes? You don’t have to come here to check and leave an angry comment or email - that probably takes longer than just clicking the “Install” button.

Part of the goal of iApp-a-Day is to bring a small bit of excitement and mystery into people’s lives each day (as well as mine). I’m not going to list a roadmap of what is to come for the same reasons that I don’t intend to meticulously detail what each release does unless it’s somehow important for that application.

Is it really so critical to know exactly what it does ahead of time? What if it does almost nothing? In the case of today’s “Fall” the package description says “It’s fall - get the leaves off the tree!” Those of you who have downloaded it know that’s all there is to it. It’s a toy - nothing more. What else is there to say about it? I’m writing an app-a-day here… not an office-suite-a-day or an operating-system-a-day. In fact, I’m not even writing “applications” - just “apps.” They’re so small that even using such a long word seemed like overkill and it had to be shortened!

Loosen up. Have fun with it - I know I am. If it wasn’t fun for me, I’d never have a chance of finishing this quest and then you guys wouldn’t have any new apps to look forward to each day. (Well, not from me, anyway.) Sit back, relax, knock some leaves off a tree while sipping a cup of hot cocoa, and remind yourself what it was like to be a kid again.

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