There’s a sucker born every minute
Thursday, August 7th, 2008I wasn’t going to blog about this when it first made headlines but now there is a nice continuation so here’s the story. Some lunatic developer, Armin Heinrich — who calls himself an artist — has created an application for the Apple iPhone that does absolutely nothing. The application is called “I am rich” and sells for $999.99 on the iPhone App Store. The idea of the application is that you buy it to show off how rich you are. You will get an application that does nothing but it shows an icon on the application menu. That is where you show off how rich you are.
An application for snobs. I really don’t like the idea behind it and I thought nobody would be dumb enough to actually buy it. But here’s the funny part. One dude claims he bought the application by accident. He clicked on the application, has 1 click checkout enabled and is now the proud owner of an application that does nothing for $999.99.
I don’t think the application says “I am rich”… I think it says “I am stupid”… It has now been removed from App Store.