This blog is in response to a recent blog by Chloe Kim, where she was talking about apps are able to start cars, and she mentioned apps by Starbucks that enable you to find good deals and such. But honestly, when will apps reach the point of going beyond useful, and into the haze of pointless.

I myself have an iPhone, and I do love the apps on it. They allow me to do my banking, play games, and check the weather whenever I need it. But that is pretty much all I use my apps for. Maybe it is just me, but an app to start a car, is that not kind of pointless? The time it would take to unlock your phone, find the app, start the app, then start the car would be way more then if you just pulled a key out of your pocket, and hit unlock and turned it in the ignition. Do these companies really think that people will use this app constantly?

How these apps are useful are as backups, in case you lose your keys for instance. But I highly doubt they will overtake the old-fashioned method of a simple car key.

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