8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000

FsG writes "In the first 24 hours that it was available, eight people bought a completely useless iPhone app for $1,000 a pop. This app does nothing except alert onlookers that you have a lot of money. The developer priced it at $999.99, which is the most you can charge on Apple's store. Apple has since yanked the app (without explanation as usual), while the inventive programmer walked away with $5,600."

Hilarious.

[Anonymous Coward]

That is all.

A wise investment

[DrXym]

This app is only going to grow in value when there only 8 copies in the world.

8 People are enough...

[Tatisimo]

At least one of them will make it freely available on bit torrent. Then we all can be iPhone rich!!!

well.

[thhamm]

modern alchemy. turn crap into money.

What did you expect?

[partowel]

Apple wants MONEY. aka GREED.

Make a dumb program, sell it for 1000000000% what

its really worth.

I'll gladly take your money.

I got a pet rock here for you.

Low LOW price of 10 trillion dollars.

Bwah hah hah hah hah hah.

Anyone here buy it?

[darjen]

If so, I'll give you $2000 for your iPhone. Email me your bank account info and I'll transfer the money asap.

Re:Reason why?

[Anonymous Coward]

They need to show they are rich they are compensating. It is a well known fact that the amount you spend on expensive, extravagant, utterly useless stuff is inversely proportionate to the size of your penis.

He's just pulled it to release the new version...

[Channard]

.. 'I am a rich asshole', which instead of having a red gem, sports a brown star.

Re:Well, you gotta hand it to the guy...

[Minwee]

Libertarians yank it too, they just don't agree with the government telling them to wash their hands afterwards.

CounterApp

[Chief_Wiggum]

Now selling the "I Am Poor" App. Pay me $0.99 and you will receive a cardboard sign to hold up while you use an iPhone. Lets see Apple take this one down! In retrospect, how did you get an iPhone if you're poor? On second thought I really don't want to know.

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[shma]

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*price is per character

Re:Well, you gotta hand it to the guy...

[oldspewey]

but you have to agree with apple for yanking it..

What if you're a Libertarian?

It's got nothing to do with libertarian principles, it's just Apple defending their market niche. They can't exactly let just anyone start charging a huge markup for trendy, stylish crap.

Re:Well, you gotta hand it to the guy...

[Bandman]

I LOL'd

Next To Come

[Ukab the Great]

An "I've Got A Really Big Penis" app that user must purchase from the App Store without using their hands and standing 12" away from their iPhone.

Re:if I could, I would

[Bandman]

Looking at the economics of enjoyment, if you get the same amount of enjoyment, relative, from your coffee as you do from an application that doesn't do a damned thing, you need to improve the quality of your coffee.

Re:Because

[Spudtrooper]

And I preferred Conjunction Junction [youtube.com].

Re:Because

[KillerBob]

I tended to prefer Asshole [wikipedia.org] to describe that practice....

Re:One click buy

[Thelasko]

Is it a good thing that you can buy something literally with one click? I find it reassuring that I have to enter my credit card details, then the little code on the back, and finally the long password that is only stored in my head.

I prefer the one click purchase. I find it horribly inconvenient to enter all of my credit card information and password. Besides, I never click any buttons acci

Re:Reason why?

[soast]

And the rockers spend it on 5000 pounds of cocaine

Re:Well, you gotta hand it to the guy...

[u-bend]

I didn't think the idea of shaking hands with Ron Paul could get more unpleasant. Thanks for that.

Re:Well, you gotta hand it to the guy...

[Chris Burke]

The next time I create an awkward social moment where I hesitate to shake the hand of a Libertarian, I'm blaming you.

Re:What did you expect?

[ral8158]

I can't tell if this is beautiful poetry or if you're just autistic.

Re:Reason why?

[alexborges]

Just my $999.02 cents...

Does not compute.

Re:Reason why?

[Mister Whirly]

A-ha! Now we know the true reason that Apple rolled out the iClick 1-click buy buttons.

Re:Reason why?

[msoori]

I'm coming up with a "I'm poor!" app for those who can't afford the "I am rich!" app, for much, much less. Its going to display a rock instead of a glowing gem, and my market research indicates $9.99 would be the sweet spot.

Re:Reason why?

[Kingrames]

depends on your definition of "high."

Author didn't make 5600$ in profits.

[Yvan256]

It costs 99$ per year to become an iPhone/iPod touch developer, so he only made 5500$. :P

A bit off-topic but interesting fact: the iPhone/iPod touch screen is 480x320 pixels, making this 999.99$ "artwork" 0.0065103515625$/pixel. That's still a lot cheaper than 1$ per pixel [milliondol...mepage.com]. ;)

Re:Well, you gotta hand it to the guy...

[maxume]

The proper response was "I think the market should at least where a robe."

Re:Reason why?

[jgarra23]

They need to show they are rich they are compensating. It is a well known fact that the amount you spend on expensive, extravagant, utterly useless stuff is inversely proportionate to the size of your penis.

As your spending approaches zero what does penis size approach?

Re:Reason why?

[linhares]

I bought one, you insensitive clod!

Re:Reason why?

[KGIII]

Didn't you read the email I sent you? You have to take pills for that. They're cheap and guaranteed to work!

Re:Reason why?

[Amouth]

saddly i think you might be able to sell it.. maybe also do an app "spent all my money on the iphone cant afford power" that jsut displays a black screen.. sell it for 99 cents..

i could see people buying it... saddly.. it reminds me of the iLight app.. which i know people who use it... people scare me...

Re:Reason why?

[nsayer]

It is a well known fact that the amount you spend on expensive, extravagant, utterly useless stuff is inversely proportionate to the size of your penis.

Well, no wonder my wife buys so many shoes.

Re:Reason why?

[foobsr]

As your spending approaches zero what does penis size approach?

Could not resist, sorry - It collapses into a black ho{|}e.

CC.

Re:CounterApp

[kat_skan]

First you do this part:

get an iPhone

Then you do this part:

you're poor

Easy. :)

Re:Reason why?

[PMuse]

The more interesting question would be, "Why are there only 8?"

But, we know the answer to that: because mommy was around to protect the kids from themselves.

Re:Reason why?

[aquatone282]

And the homeboys from the farm spend it all on seed and feed.

GENIOUS iMoneyLaundry!

[nazsco]

1. create any dumb app
2. sell for highest price
3. used robbed credit cards
4. buy some of your apps

iMoneyLaundry that is

Re:Reason why?

[barzok]

Which he bought from the rap star, thus making the rap star even richer.

Re:Hilarious.

[MagicM]

ladies and gentleman

Wow, optimistic! You must be new here.

Re:Reason why?

[The FNP]

Well, during the time I was broke and saving every penny, it swelled so much that I had to hire a fleet of dump trucks to carry it in front of me, but only until I got the first invoice, because then it returned to normal.

--The FNP

Re:Reason why?

[Draek]

It is a well known fact that the amount you spend on expensive, extravagant, utterly useless stuff is inversely proportionate to the size of your penis.

So the fact that my girlfriend has no jewelry besides a pair of small earrings and hates extravagant clothing means...

Excuse me, I think I'll have to puke.

Re:Reason why?

[laejoh]

At first I was afraid, what could the answer be?

It said as your spending approaches zero what does penis size will be?

So I tried to work it out, but I knew that I was wrong.

I struggled; I cried, "A problem shouldn't take this long!"

I tried to think, control my nerve.

It's evident that spending's tangential to that penis-position curve.

This problem would be mine if I just knew that tangent line.

But what to do? Show me a sign!

.

.

.

So I thought back to Calculus.

Way back to Newton and to Leibniz,

And to problems just like this.

And just like that when I had given up all hope,

I said nope, there's just one way to find that slope.

And so now I, I will derive.

Find the derivative of penis position with respect to spending time.

It's as easy as can be, just have to take dx/dt.

I will derive, I will derive. Hey, hey!

Re:Reason why?

[DarthVain]

Your wife has a penis? eww.

Re:Hilarious.

[Anonymous Coward]

Russian joke from the time when there was a wave "new rich" russians: Two friends meet each other on the street, one of them shows off his new gold rolex: "this one cost me 5000 dollar". The other one: "you stupid fool, I have bought exactly the same for 7000 dollar"

Re:Reason why?

[rebelcan]

So these two dogs walk into a bar. Well, not walk like dogs usually do. They were standing up see, because it's funnier that way. So one of them says to the bartender "I'd like a gin martini". Well, he says it. Like, human speach. Not barking. Because if he just barked at the bartender this joke wouldn't make any sense. So anyways... wait, where was I?

I'll just come in again.

Re:Reason why?

[Anonymous Coward]

They're just angry someone beat them at their own game. Nothing to see here, move along.

Re:Reason why?

[Behrooz]

"I am the king of no-pants!"

Re:Reason why?

[quenda]

Excuse me, I think I'll have to puke.

Oh no - Been sick in the mornings lately, have you?