I think app developers are missing an important market.

With all the thousands of apps out there, you’d think someone would focus on the Working Woman/ Working Mom Market. Now here is a seriously under-served market.

My main complaint? Apps are supposed to  simplify or beautify my life, not just  gadget-ize it!

Do I really need an app that can turn my photo into a cartoon avatar? And is that a Carvatar which sounds like a tool for the carpool crowd, or a Cavatar, the favorite app of the diligent dentist?

Perhaps I’d use it if that cartoon app also included a cloning device, or even a cloaking device. When choice chores, such as swimsuit shopping, bathroom cleaning, and taxes are being doled out, I’d love to hand them off to Cavatar Carol, or use the cloaking device on my app to disappear completely so they’d fall into someone else’s lap. (Have I mentioned that my entire family holds the misguided notion that bathrooms clean themselves?).

Next, how about a weight loss app? No, I don’t need one that counts calories…QR  codes simplified that years ago! The idea behind this app would be, if I’m about to eat some sinfully delicious, calorie-laden slice of decadent goodness, I could hold my treat up to the app and it would absorb, say, all of the calories!

The final app on my wish list is the housecleaning app. Now this would be incredibly useful!  Sure, they have that little roomba that comes with a free ride for the cat, but how about a free ride for Mom once in a while? Got an app for that?

So what app is on your wish list?

.Gif courtesy of Alfred F. Jones, via tumblr.