Yesterday, on my Facebook, I reposted Gizmodo’s article An iPhone App To Schedule and Graph Sex With All Your Girlfriends. (Presumably, straight women and gay men can use it too, so it’s really for tracking all partners — not just girlfriends.) Called DateMate, it’s available for $2.99 here. I think I’m turning into a sap because I don’t like it. At all :( This video shows how the app works in case you’ve not yet heard about it.
A FUNKY BROWN CHICK® reader named Mike asks, “Is it really that much different than using Google Calendar to schedule social time? Putting things like ‘how much sex do I get’ into hard numbers is a little bit crass, but it is a quantitative measurement,” he explains. “[H]ow else would you keep track of information, except to put a number or some kind of value to it?” Very good questions and valid points.
My daily schedule’s kind of hectic. So, I’m addicted to Google Calendar. Without it, I’d have no clue where I was supposed to be, when I should be there and who to expect once I arrived. BUT … My love life? Much more stable. If you’ve read 101 Things That Are Totally Twanna, you know I’m a romantic — an incurable, soulful idealist who would rather be monogamous with one guy at a time. That’s not to say I don’t support others’ right to choose poly, open and other relationships. I also support women (and men’s) right to slut it up. It’s just … for me, for right now … it’s not my personal preference.
My velvet has a velvet rope barring entry; it’s a very exclusive club. I need to feel cared for — not just fucked. It only took one guy — many years ago — to completely spoil me for all others. Once I was loved fully and completely, it taught me how to care for others. Ever since, I want to date guys who remember my birthday, call or text me to say they miss me otherwise treat me as well as I deserve to be treated. Before, if I was dating a guy and he fell ill, I’d stay away until he got better and complain, “Don’t get me sick!” Now, if the guy I’m dating doesn’t feel well, I bring him soup. I’m just not interested in dating men who are seeing (and sleeping with) so many women at the same time that they need an app to measure it all. Or, to quote my friend Samhita, “Sex is just sex. That’s not the real shit. That’s not like getting real deep with one person.”
Anyway. Back to DateMate. I wonder if the app will be a bigger financial success that the software is. Available for $19.95 on CNET’s Download.com since 2007, the software has only been purchased 4 times in the last week plus an additional 254 since they started selling the product. If I’ve done the math correctly, that averages less than $5 per day in sales. By comparison, if the app sells only twice at $2.99, it would generate 26% more cash in one day. Hmmm, no wonder so many companies are selling cheap dating apps! ;) See: Fast Company’s 10 Best iPhone Apps for Dating.
Those are my thoughts. Feel free to use the comments section to share yours.
