About Solar System Exploration 2:
Solar System is an embarrassing quick-reference work about the star and the planets of our solar system. The app doesn’t deliver what it promises and -even worse- what it does deliver is incorrect and incomplete. The information is way too concise and is blatantly copypasted from Wikipedia, there are some painfully stupid mistakes in the arrangement of the information, quite a few essential celestial bodies are omitted, and there are some more problems. Clearly, Solar System is nothing but a shameless, lazy cash-grab and I can only advise you to stay away. Although I paid a mere 49 cents for Solar System, I’ll be getting a refund out of principle to not support shovelware like this. So what is the nature of the ‘interactivity’ mentioned in the second part of the description? Well, you see a number of buttons on the left-hand side of the screen. They’re labeled with the names of celestial bodies: the sun, the planets and a couple of moons. When you click a button, an animated image of the selected celestial body appears. You can use the scroll wheel to zoom in or out a bit, and you can drag the mouse to change the viewing angle. Lastly, there’s a slider to increase the rotation speed of the celestial body. That’s all. On the right-hand side of your screen is a text window containing some data and basic information about the celestial body you selected. The information is very concise – way too basic to charge money for, especially since the app’s description promises you’ll be able to “deepen your knowledge of the Solar System”. This implies the app contains more than the most basic facts, which it doesn’t, so again I find the description misleading.
