Re:You can do a lot with an empty file
by memco on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @09:10PM
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If I recall correctly one of the most popular third party apps first released for the iPhone was a flashlight app that was a blank app with an icon and a name. Slightly more code than any of those under the hood, but I feel the idea is the same.
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Straying further from empty-file-ness, but in a similar vein of low-effort apps in the early days of the iPhone was the controversial I Am Rich, which still makes me giggle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
>I am rich
>I deserv [sic] it
>I am good,
>healthy & successful
This one deserves a mention as well:
> Send Me To Heaven (officially stylized as S.M.T.H.) is an Android application developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the risk of damaging their phones.
Re:You can do a lot with an empty file
by version_five on Thursday April 07, 2022 @08:04AM
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This could be a direct ancestor of NFTs
An NFT way ahead of its time.
While this was clearly an experiment etc, a "I am rich" showing off is still prevalent in most games these days with high ticket in-game purchases. Either of the variant that gives your character or base or whatever an appearance trait, or pay-to-win items that puts you high up on the leaderboards.