Video: Pocket Cemetery iPhone App preys on grief, sends prayers to Flash memory
By Thomas Ricker 
posted July 6th 2009 5:19AM
posted July 6th 2009 5:19AM
Death is a certainty and as inescapable as the people who will prey on your grief. The new Pocket Cemetery App on iTunes lets you create virtual tombstones for "dead relatives, friends, pets, or celebrities" that you can decorate with bitmapped flower images. You can even use the on-screen QWERTY to tap out and "send" a little prayer. As Wayne Perry describes it, Pocket Cemetery is "like having a little virtual heaven in the palm of your hand." Unfortunately, heaven will cost $2.99 and there won't be any connectivity -- this App runs isolated on your iPhone without any means to share your memorial, prayers, or grieving. But hey, maybe we're alone in our criticism; Pocket Cemetery already has a first "user review" rating it 5 out of 5 stars by a first time reviewer just 1-hour after launch. Impressive.
P.S. Don't just stop at the video above, Wayne's generated a different pitch on his YouTube channel capitalizing on the deaths of Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, and Farrah Fawcett. Elvis too, even though we know he's just in hiding.
P.S. Don't just stop at the video above, Wayne's generated a different pitch on his YouTube channel capitalizing on the deaths of Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, and Farrah Fawcett. Elvis too, even though we know he's just in hiding.
All of the major services (from wide variety of fields) decided to give him respect and tribute for touching milions.So if other could mention Micheal I dont see Engadget could not make small remark. The whole freaking world knows who this person was as he was one of his kind.
But if engadget decides to ignore that fact [fair] thats their view/choice. And I can agree to that and have no problem with it.
But why they decided to put this news up? hmm? i think this app existed before Micheal's death concerning other celebrities. But engadget didnt focus on it untill Micheal Jackson passed away. And it because Micheal, engadget highlighted this app. So for me it is not the most classy way to reffer to someones death by emphasizing an app that uses his name to make cash. >:O I would leave more space for things more important than that. Especially when micheal's death is considered for something not worth of mentioning. Thats how i think :)
While caught up in grief I was expecting this site to cover Michael Jackson's demise since this site has been known to blog about robots, and Jackson was the most influential robot in pop history. In retrospect, even though it may have been sad, I'd prefer them to stick to covering practical consumer gadgets. I'll continue to do my grieving at rotten.com, thank you.
You actually pitched a fit because a gadget blog is not posting a tribute to a musician. Seriously, think about how pathetic you look to all of us right now.
I'm having a good laugh over it. I'll tell you that much.
Finally an app that let's me feel good about burying my iphone.
Making money out of numpties? Good work that man.
More iCrap!
yay Engadget! I'm so glad they're not acknoledging this stupid-ass media hype over MJ's death. He was a pop music star. He was not somebody that ever did anything good for the world or bettered it. He sang shitty music that influenced more shitty music that has now resulted in massive amounts of shitty music that is produced by a bunch of suits sitting around a 15,000 Microsoft touch screen coffee table computer (which are still way f'ing cool) who decide which demographic they can exploit next with music written by people who are 50+ and then sang by hot white jail-bait ass.
Way to be Engadget. +9000 Internets, and my hat's off to you.
before MJ fans start blasting me, I spelled acknowledging*** wrong. I am aware. Now, go ahead.
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"He was not somebody that ever did anything good for the world or bettered it."
Seriously? Let's see you give over 300 million dollars to charities. Hell, even one percent of that.
http://www.thesource.com/2009/06/the-source-remembers-michael-jackson-humanitarian/
WOW that is the crappiest app ever -.- Lets send fake flowers and a fake prayer to dead people that won't ever receive them. I'm telling you these religious things are gonna kill me....
I don't know which is worse; The idiot profiteering off a celebrity's death or the idiots who spend money on an app to send prayers to a person they didn't know.
This is also on android!!!!
Androids eat apples for breakfast
I'm a CONSUMER WHORE... Deep inside I am already dead, before this application was even made... and no amount of iPhone flowers can bring my soul to life...
Man I'm sick of hearing about Michael "Kid-toucher" Jackson.
Weird and creepy - wonder how many have sold? I'm going to take a look at ratings.
http://www.cruisemarketwatch.com/blog1/articles/cruise-iphone-app-now-available-to-cruisers/
http://www.alwaysbecruising.com/who/index.php