Reply To: The Shabbos App Controversy

I don’t think it’s a hoax. If you check the patent office website and search for them, you’ll see that the shabbos app and “nisht tzu zein a yid” are actually registered trademarks. That having been said, I still don’t think they’ll be able to work out all the halachic issues, and even if they did, as Oomis said, I wouldn’t find it to be in the spirit of Shabbos for regular people (excluding doctors or other people for whom using a phone is necessary, for whom this might help a great deal.)