They haven't approved my fire alarm iPhone app either. Who knows how many lives could have been saved in the weeks since I submitted it? The application is so s

They haven't approved my fire alarm iPhone app either. Who knows how many lives could have been saved in the weeks since I submitted it? The application is so simple: When you see a fire, you go to your iPhone, click on the "Fire Alarm" icon, go over by a window to get a good 3G data connection, then wait for a GPS fix, then swipe the screen to activate the alarm, then wait as the alert is uploaded. If your iPhone and your window are nearby, it could save a marginal amount of time and effort compared to finding and pulling a real fire alarm. If you already downloaded the fire alarm app, that is; otherwise, it might take a couple of minutes to dig around the app store to find it. Getting notified by the fire alarm application is even easier. First, you just need to go to the App Store and download it onto your phone. Then, you just leave it constantly running on your phone instead of using your phone for anything it was designed for. Then you wait for somebody to "pull the alarm." And wait. And wait. (I recommend sitting by a window.) Edit: Somebody emailed me this question: Q: What about the vast majority of people that don't have iPhones? How will they be alerted? What about building it as a SMS service that would work on every phone? You know, like this existing government-created Amber Alert system for phones: http://www.amberalert.gov/wireless.htm http://www.amberalert.gov/wireless.htm. A: I like playing with my iPhone and complaining about it publicly. I also enjoy self-promotion. The fire alarm app is just a means of pursuing these hobbies. I have no interest in distributing any kind of alerts to anybody besides iPhone users. The actual alerting is secondary to my interests anyway.