New iPhone App to Remind You to Brush Your Teeth - Seriously?

Perhaps what you should do, so you understand where I'm coming from and you don't think that this is just a tirade against Apple, because I think the company is interesting - I'd like you to go to any of the online news outlets and click on the technology button, and see what new stories are listed under technology. Then you will begin to see what I'm talking about. Please consider all this.
As a coordinator for a think tank online, I take about 50 technology e-mail newsletters, many of them are daily, but most are weekly and lately they've been filled with none other than Apple's latest technology or their exploits in the marketplace. Believe it or not folks there is more to technology than Apple. The personal tech sector is only one of many sub-sectors of the technology category. There is military technology, space technology, alternative energy technology, automotive advanced technologies, and there is nanotech, biotech, and aerospace technologies.
Not long ago, I was discussing this with an acquaintance of mine, about the over 40,000 Apple iPhone applications, and all the new applications coming forth for the new iPad. 40,000 applications is far too many, and I can see the headlines now and tomorrow in the technology e-mail newsletters:
"New revolutionary iPhone app to remind you to brush your teeth!"
And whereas, you might consider that rather funny, I went ahead and went to the Apple application website, and noted there is more than one iPhone application that can remind you to brush your teeth. That's not technology folks, and for those of you who forget to brush your teeth, that might be all well and good for you, but it is not advancing the human race one iota.
In fact, one of the online newsletters I take has to do with dental technologies, and there are all sorts of new things going on in that field. Things that you may never have heard about, but will change the way that dentists and the dentistry industry sector operates far off in the future. What I am saying here is Apple is being a ball hog when it comes to the media and news in the technology category. There is more to life than Apple's latest PR stunt, or purported innovation.
There are all sorts of great companies with superb innovations each and every day coming on to the market that are not getting the attention they deserve. At some point the "personal tech" market which would include the industry sector where Apple innovates and sells, dropped the word "personal" and it just became technology. As far as I am concerned real technology has to do with things like CERN, space innovations, nanotech, biotech, etc.
Perhaps what you should do, so you understand where I'm coming from and you don't think that this is just a tirade against Apple, because I think the company is interesting - I'd like you to go to any of the online news outlets and click on the technology button, and see what new stories are listed under technology. Then you will begin to see what I'm talking about. Please consider all this.
As a coordinator for a think tank online, I take about 50 technology e-mail newsletters, many of them are daily, but most are weekly and lately they've been filled with none other than Apple's latest technology or their exploits in the marketplace.

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