8 People Bought ‘I Am Rich’ Application

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Everyone was wondering if anyone were actually stupid enough to spend $1000 on the ‘I Am Rich’ iPhone application. Well, according to the developer of the application, 8 people purchased the application, a “glorified screensaver,” before Apple pulled it from their iPhone store:

 

 

Apple has spit out a pit in its iTunes App Store, a controversial $999.99 “glorified screensaver,” but not before eight people bought it, Newsfactor.com reported on Friday.

The company on Thursday removed the “I Am Rich” application created by developer Armin Heinrich, who said that eight people had purchased it before it was taken off iTunes, Newsfactor.com reported. The buyers include six people from the United States and one each from France and Germany.

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.