Thursday, August 7, 2008

I Am Rich

Apple has spit out a pit in its iTunes App Store, a controversial $999.99 "glorified screensaver."

A glance Thursday of the store showed no offering for "I Am Rich," created by someone named Armin Heinrich. The app displays a glowing red gem on a user's iPhone screen for the sole purpose of proving to onlookers one is of the moneyed class. That's all it does.

But on Wednesday, when the app was present in the iTunes store, a little pop-up message told us "I Am Rich" is not available for sale to U.S. residents. Given the sorry state of the U.S. dollar, that might make sense.

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