You can already simulate farting and shooting with various iPhone apps. Now, you can "punch" your friends (?) with a new iPhone app with that very title. Very nice.
Why punch your friends? It doesn't have to be your friends, of course, it can be anybody you wanna sock it to. All you have to do is "tap to punch, swipe to slap," says the developer,
TechCrunch said the 99-cents app was "created on a lark by Blippy co-founder Philip Kaplan, while he was on vacation in Hawaii." (Must have been a restful one.)
Even Kaplan thinks it's lame (but probably not for the right reasons), but there it is, out there for all.
"Think of it like a 99-cent app that I’m preemptively giving full refunds for because it sucks," Kaplan told TechCrunch, which noted that "inexplicably, the app is currently clocking in 1,200 installs per day and is at #307 in downloads for free apps in the US."
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