HERALD EXTRA.com Reports:
For years people have reached out to the Almighty with prayers and supplications. Soon they might be able to use their iPhones.
A high school student has created an iPhone application to send prayers to heaven. Allen Wright, 17, of Fair Oaks, Calif., thought up the application for the Apple iPhone that allows users to send prayers into cyberspace and allows them to read the prayers of others. Called “A Note to God,” the messages are stored in a database, and users remain anonymous.
Andrew Maltin, Medl Mobile
“It’s so simple, it’s brilliant, we think it’s going to be extremely successful” said Andrew Maltin, one of the co-founders of Medl Mobile, the company that received Wright’s proposal. Medl Mobile is a Los Angeles startup that is developing apps for Apple to sell on its Web site. It selected “A Note to God” from 20,000 proposals. ‘
The idea
“If you want to send a message, and you don’t have anybody to talk to, you could send a little prayer,” Write told the Associated Press. The junior at Del Campo High School and regular churchgoer, said he came up with the idea while lying in bed and feeling lonesome.
Apps can generate millions
Apps, which iPhone users download from Apple, range from free to $5 or more. Users can play games, find restaurants or transform their iPhones into remote controls. There are hundreds of applications. Successful apps can generate thousands or even millions of dollars for developers. Any proceeds from “A Note to God” would be shared among Apple, Medl and Wright. If his app becomes a big seller, Wright said he’d like to use his share of the profits to go to college.
Waiting for approval from Apple
Maltin said his firm is still waiting for approval from Apple, but it could come any day now. The Silicon Valley giant didn’t respond to inquiries Monday. Apple has rejected apps before for what it deemed inappropriate religious content, but Maltin said he didn’t think that would happen with “A Note to God.”
Application is not a joke, it’s sincere
The application is not a joke, but a sincere way for people to reach out to the divine and to each other, he said. Users can read each others’ prayers and be supportive by clicking on a “thumbs up” sign, he said. Otherwise, they can’t leave feedback or respond, he said.
Support from others
Darleen Pryds, an expert in medieval religious practices at the Franciscan School of Theology — part of the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley — called the app “a brilliant use of technology” that brings to mind the 13th-century bells summoning people to pray.
“This application sounds to me like a call to prayer,” she said. “It creates a community of prayer, and by seeing other people’s prayers, it is a reminder to pray yourself.”
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