The number four best selling free app is Burp and Fart Piano. "With this app you can now fart and burp your favourite tunes," the author says. When other fart and burp developers see its position in the Mac App Store top seller charts they will no doubt quickly rush out their own version.
Having lots of poor apps in the Mac App Store devalues its usefulness and I've already downloaded apps and deleted them 10 minutes later because they sounded good, but turned out to be boring or useless. Apps on the iPhone can be simple and trivial because they are often used for short periods when you are bored and want a bit of entertainment. When you're at Starbucks you can get out your iPhone or iPod Touch and play a game for 10 minutes or do some other simple task, but are you really going to boot up your iMac or MacBook Pro and play Burp and Fart Piano?
When your mates come round you can say "Hey, look what my $2,000 27in 2.8GHz quad-core iMac can do," Windows users will just laugh!
Why have rubbish in the App Store? It's not as if the authors have no other way of selling it. Mac apps have been distributed online for years and still are. Just search at Google for 'OS X applications' or 'Mac software' and you'll find lots of great sources of software. Shouldn't Apple make the App Store a source of quality applications?
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