SmackFu Apprentice

I used to get tons of email regarding features and such for iGotchi. Last year around this time, when the App Store was opening, I was getting a steady stream of hate mail. Here is an example of one piece of email (admittedly the worst I had received). So as the anniversary of iGotchi’s release approaches, I thought I’d share this gem.

Please, let me introduce the world to Fernando C. He writes:

Are you seriously kidding me?
Your application is a SCAM!
Can you please, seriously, tell me what makes that idiotic app so
special that I have to waste my time to check it all the time to press
a button 1000x and still have to send an email to someone because I’m
allegedly a “bad parent”? Are you saying that this piece of crap is my
son or something? THAT LOOKS LIKE MY BALLS, SERIOUSLY, NO WAY ON EARTH
YOU ARE GOING TO TELL ME THAT I AM THAT THING’S PARENT.
If you are not creative enough to make a worthy app, then give me my
money back or stop this ridiculous “activation thing”.
The code for that retarded thing is: 153205227
I can’t believe that I’ve just had to do this… This is totally
ridiculous! Comparing a piece of junk like your “software” with a
son…
I would kill myself if I were you, charging for your useless app that
I can’t even chose the kind of food that I can give the stupid bugger.
That baby chuckle is so ridiculous and the computer generated loop is
so lame… Thank god people are getting the perception that your app
is crappy and hopefully they will not buy this piece of troublesome
junk and Apple will take it down from the store.

My reply:

Dear Fernando,

I appreciate your feedback and will take it into account while I do
my best to improve iGotchi in future releases.

Best Regards,

Dave

P.S. Your reactivation code is: 794772846