And the award for the creepiest seasonal iPhone app goes to: Mistletoe.

 

Hey, look, everyone!  It's an app that glorifies that real-life holiday hazing apparatus that's globally hated by all women as much as Peppy Le Pew himself -- MISTLETOE!  As a bonus, it supports a binary reaction from its users: a kiss (positive) or a smack (negative).  How cute and simple and either submissive or violent!  

Thanks to the creators of this winner of an app.  What better way to reinforce the notion that developers are creeps who can't connect or communicate with their love interest but release an app as the placeholder of real physical affection!  Using a little boy as the posterchild is a stretch even for moms eyeing up this app.  Even a friend remarked that the boy doubles sadly as the self-image of the programmer or the level of expected user maturity. 

I look forward to their future apps, hopefully to include a game to track virtual booty calls and Hot or Not: Mobile (now with GeoTagging!).

 

Comments

[Matt Jacobs]

I am shocked by your sexism. There are plenty of men who hate mistletoe too!

[noctua]

Hahaha. In Pepe Le Pew's defense... he's a skunk. :)

[apgwoz]

It might be interesting to plot on a map where you were smacked or where you got a kiss... but I agree with Matt.

[Johnny Mistletoe]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=kiss-mistletoe-good-bye-the-yuletid-2010-12-15

Mistletoe is being threatened with extinction!