For at least two weeks running now, the most popular free app on the iTunes AppStore is Stylem Media‘s Backgrounds app.
Offering thousands of wallpapers in expected categories such as Nature, Beaches, City, Cars, Stars, Sunsets, Patterns, Swirls, Hearts, Animals, Models, Trees…the app appears to be a wild success.
Has the iPhone begun to diminish Apple users’ reputation for creativity? I mean, how hard is it to find a wallpaper of your own design?
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10 responses to “Where Has Apple Users’ DIY Creativity Gone?”
Hear, hear!! I make my own backgrounds using sketch apps (I finally bought igraffiti and have been using that).
Oh my, really? Did you really think this silly gibbering was suitable for publication? I mean, guys i love you but you’re really going down the hill…
“Where Has Apple Users’ DIY Creativity Gone?”
Where indeed… such is the inevitable result of going after the lowest-common- denominator market to whom a Mac is but a ‘posh PC’.
Ho hum.
Owning and iPhone does not mean owning a Mac… and my guess would be that the majority of what makes the Backgrounds app popular is WINDOWS users uncreativity!
first, not everyone that has an iphone has a mac.
second. not everyone that has an iphone wants to spend time making wallpapers for it.
third, not everyone that uses a Mac is a power user that has had one since the dawn of time. so chill out on the ‘why are you posting this crap’. I personally think that it’s great that CoM is showing that Mac users aren’t all egos with their heads up their firewire ports. We can be goofy and silly and we welcome anyone no matter how ‘beginner’ to the family. it starts with downloading a premade app, then folks start to think they can do this for themselves. next thing you know you have a new devotee learning how to use Adobe CS