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I know it's peripheral to the article but that punching app sounds creepy as hell.

• waterlesscloud 17y ago
  I'm surprised that it apparently fits Apple's vision more than women in bikinis do.
  • DLWormwood 17y ago
    > I'm surprised that it apparently fits people who complain to Apple's vision more than women in bikinis do. FTFY. Seriously, this is just another manifestation of how USA mores are more permissive towards violence than sexuality. Apple's an American corporation under US laws and community standards; what did you expect?
• patio11 17y ago
  The Discovery Channel non-judgmental anthropologist version is that it allows one to express negative emotions (or joking about untrue negative emotions) about a subject without actually causing them physical harm, in a form factor which invites sharing the negative emotions socially. Since most people in fact have negative emotions about someone at some point in time, this sharing provides cathartic release, and since there is widespread feeling for this need, the meme spreads quickly. It isn't exactly appealing to the best side of human nature, but the user psychology is interesting -- particularly the social angle. Hatred/frustration isn't the only emotion out there, just like things that jiggle are not the only things that catch the imagination of twenty-somethings. I wonder what could happen if you replicated the fundamentally social experience with something a little more positive. Maybe e.g. something which let young ladies show their friends how awesome their friends were. Or, and this would be at the top of the Japanese charts in a minute, an application where you take a picture of a friend and it does the appropriate transformations to look like an omiai photo (traditionally prior to an arranged marriage dossiers are passed between the prospective couple, including a photo done in a particular style -- let your imagination run wild on the social possibilities for having one of these made for anyone you can point the camera at).