Do crappy low budget B movies detract from the Oscars each year? Does the existence of Bieber mean music is no longer art? Does the popularity of Harry Potter mean Terry Pratchett should have quit?
(Yes, I'm still a little pissed that Rowling got hundreds of millions in movie budgets for her generic 'teen wizard done a sparkly thing' stories, while the Discworld has to grovel to Sky for a few lousy million. There again, it's harder to sell complex layered storylines with deep social comment and satire to movie funders, they like cute kids and sparkly trails in the sky).
Sure there's a heap of old crap out there, but it makes the gems glimmer all the brighter when you unearth one, however, yes, Apply could spend a few bucks from their billions on hiring some kid to check if the new apps being presented to the store just go 'prrrrrp' and ask $3 for the privilege.
There again, the 'I'm rich' app sold a few too, and that was $1000 for a picture of a diamond and the words 'I'm rich' on the screen. (Looked it up, he sold 8 copies, but 2 were 'mistakes' and he refunded their money, so it seems he's a fairly honourable guy who just saw a way to sell a really dumb overpriced status symbol to rich people, and isn't that wht fast cars, expensive jewellery and the like are too?
In the end, I guess crap serves a purpose in making the good stuff look better, but some kind of quality control makes the owner of the store look better, take a look in a LIDL, then go to Marks n Spencer, there's some great stuff dirt cheap in LIDL if you're willing to look, but M&S is pretty much guaranteed levels of quality, for a price.
