Like Facebook, Apple has opened the iphone to outside software developers. Apple earns 30% of all application sales, the developer 70%.
While people die of hunger all over Africa there are some idiots stupid enough to download an application that costs $999 for their iphone just to let people know they are rich.
No-utility!
What do they get for this I am Rich application? No, it’s not the latest updates from wall street or anything even remotely useful. They get to download an image of a multifaceted ruby, letting the world know that they are rich enough to be frivolous with their cash.
The developer, one German Mr Heinrich, said that it was basically a joke and that he didn’t really expect people to download it. But they did. Ten idiots in fact (well 8, 2 were refunded because they clicked on the “one click” button by mistake).
The bigger idiot
Apple have since removed the application and I am still struggling to figure out who the bigger idiots are:
- the ones who purchased the application for real
- the ones who clicked on the purchase button by mistake (who clicks on something that costs $999 by mistake)
- or Apple for removing the application as they were earning $300 every time someone downloaded it
But I would like to congratulate Mr Heinrich as the zero-utility I am Rich iphone application netted him $6,000 in the less than a day.
I say they keep the application and donate the proceeds to a good cause (no refunds allowed). What do you think?
Filed under: The daily unground | Tagged: apple, application, i am rich, iphone, mobile, software
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