Some developers are having trouble getting apps approved for the App Store. Here is a particularly frustrating example that we reported on earlier.  What holds up some apps why others sneak right out? What can developers add to ensure their app slips quietly into the air of mainstream apps? How can a developer makes sure their app burst noisily onto the scene?

The answer seems to be: add fart noises. We’re not going to say that cyber flatulence isn’t the height of comedy but it sure does seem to be Apple’s definition of the funniest thing ever*. How can we be sure someone at Apple is endlessly cracked up by fart noises? Because Apple approved fourteen new fart apps yesterday. It is almost like the pressure to approve fart apps had been building and building until finally, after the approval of Pull My finger was complete, the pressure became too great to contain and approvals blew out loud and fast, creating a giant cloud of Apple approved fart apps. Anyway, one suspects that if Newber could switch calls between phones and play fart noises the app would’ve been approved yesterday.

So if you like fake fart noises such as: whooppee cushions, noise putty or even the classic homebrew hand in the armpit there’s probably a fart app for you floating in the air of the Apple Store somewhere.

Note to developers: what would be more useful than an app that makes fart noises is one that would accurately identify just who recently befouled the local climate. Sure, a lot of people always accuse the first denier of being the supplier but that isn’t a scientific method of assigning blame, no more accurate than the notion that the first individual to smell it is, in fact, the dealer of said emission. With the iPhones GPS capabilities and built in microphone a program to accurately reveal the identity of a mysterious farter shouldn’t be too hard to come up with.

*Actual funniest thing ever: Raising Arizona