A new version of AOL’s Fortune is now available, so it seems like a good time to review this app. As you might expect, the concept is simple: it’s a fortune cookie on your iPhone. While Fortune does have some nice features, there’s a big downside that might make you think twice about downloading and using this app.
The new 2.0 version is smaller and more stable than the previous version that was prone to crashes. When you load the app, you can “test your luck” by displaying a nicely drawn fortune cookie. As you move your iPhone about the cookie will slide from edge to edge. Press on the cookie to break it open and reveal your fortune. You can send fortunes to friends via email or press a button for another fortune.
Unfortunately, the fortunes are a little strange and not particularly varied. I did, however, like the fortune about seeing a man playing a guitar and then suggesting I donate. I traveled to a street fair that very day so this was a nice piece of “karma.”
This app comes from AOL and as a free app a little advertising might be okay. However, Fortune takes this one step too far with fortunes that when tapped load your browser and into a part of the AOL website. I don’t mind that AOL has a variety of iPhone services, but this nature of promotion feels quite intrusive and awfully tacky.
The program isn’t bad, but the advertising aspect sure is a downside.
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Cost: free
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