THERE’S A SAP FOR THAT!
I haven’t put down my iPhone since I got it on Sunday and yes, it’s hard to type, but so worth it because now I feel like I’m somebody. I had the same BlackBerry for like 10 years and I’ve been using it as a free weight for the past two, while speed walking. Got your tickets to the gun show? So now I’m like every other annoying iPhone owner except I’m even more annoying because I’ve started walking up to strangers on the street and snapping photos of them up close, and then threatening to bribe them.
However, this unadulterated love for everything iPhone was before what could only be called…AppleAppGate. Due to soaring testosterone levels and public outrage, PepsiCo announced today that it was pulling an iPhone application from the Apple store, one that claimed to help men “score” with women. Wow. I mean, guys, if you’re relying on an app to get you laid, you should just go back to your Palm.
The app, “AMP Up Before You Score,” was part of the marketing campaign to help promote Pepsi’s new AMP Energy drink. According to its description, it’s a “roadmap to success with your favorite kinds of women” that will “change your game and raise your expectations.” The app classified women into different categories, like “actresses,” “businesswomen,” “broads,” “skirts,” and “girls who like tools,” and also provided a “cheat sheet on “the stuff she’s into, with lists, links and some surefire opening lines.” Like, “Hi, according to my iPhone, you might have sex with me if I pay you. A lot.”
If the guy “got lucky” (meaning some woman out there is very unlucky), the app allowed him to keep a “Brag List,” which you could share with your dork friends on email, Facebook, and Twitter. You could also print it out and post it on the wall of your basement apartment!

Tagged: AMP energy drink, iPhone app, PepsiCo.





West Texas Hillbilly says:
Give that app to a guy who voted for McCain and he couldn’t get laid even with his Palm.
/His Sidekick might lift his spirits though.
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Dallas Snob says:
“I mean, guys, if you’re relying on an app to get you laid, you should just go back to your Palm.”
That was pretty clever.
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Commie Pinko says:
I’m sorry. What was this blog about? I got so distracted by the photo with the babe in the background.
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lush says:
So…. I took one for the team last night and met some married with kids friends I never get to see anymore at a really cheesy bar. And I’m thinking that I would have preferred that the guys who approached me used an app such as this instead of their own material. It really was that bad. And this is why I stick to live music venues.
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Eileen Reply:
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:29 am
Is it because you’re not married?
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lush Reply:
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:09 am
No, because the douchebags at the bar were hitting on my married friends as well. This is what it’s come to.
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Chilicook says:
Appable.
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Eileen Reply:
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:27 am
Snap.
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Anonymous says:
well done!
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potted meat says:
Hey , I don’t know about apps, but my phone takes pix and has an alarm clock and a calculator.
So there….ppffft!
/must go change tape in 8 track.
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OldMediaMan says:
Let the firings begin at Pepsi.
And, yes, Eileen, the line about going back to your “Palm” was an all-timer.
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Jimbo says:
There are phones that can take pictures?
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