Found Footage: 'I Am Rich' walk through

Ummm..... ¿how do I know the one you have on the video is not a cracked copy?

If there's a demand they should sell it. Period. To some people that's NOTHING for a now well-recognized status symbol.

It didn't make as much sense before it was famous but now? If I had stupid amounts of money and an iPhone? I'd get that just to be a smartass showoff and so would many. Apple should bring it back and make a mint. Kudos to the guy who wrote it. Knock-offs wouldn't sell.


The eight people who legitmately bought this app are now walking memes.

I have no idea how easy it is to pirate apps for the iPhone so that might make a difference, but after all this hoopla? There are now a lot more customers for this thing, this "application worth more than the device."

There's probably a whole new market for status-symbol software emerging. Get on it!

Why would Apple let this app be in the App Store anyway? They didn't let some major developers put any good apps there, and they let some random guy with a pointless $1000 app have his program in the App Store. If I wanted to show the world that I am rich, I would do something like make myself a hat out of $100 bills. Not buy a stupid app which does nothing at all.

I am just waiting for the day when someone releases an identical app for $.99 called "I Am Not Rich". It would undoubtedly sell many copies simply due to all the news this app made and people wanting to laugh at themselves. If only I knew how to program I would do it myself.

To what extent should Apple save the stupid from themselves?

This is certainly proving to be an interesting psychological study on social class conflict. Here we are condemning both the person who created this app and the people who who bought it.

Lots of self-righteousness abound... demands that "all the money be taken away from the developer" to make an example of him, and cries of why the buyers didn't use the money "in a better way" by donating it to a charity or something.

The reality though, is far less pleasant to look at directly. Just what is our "true" motivation for being so annoyed? Perhaps we're all secretly jealous that we didn't "think of it first" or jealous of the fact that someone else has $1000 to blow on stuff like this instead of it being us with that kind of money?

If not anything else, it demonstrates how easy it is for people to criticize each other when they can't be bothered to criticize themselves first.

Rich/stupid/lucky people don't have to buy the app, they just have to compete in http://segwayfest2008.com/

Yes, that is a jab at the Woz.

Yeah, now I'm rich too! : D

Hey Christina, good post! I guess the only thing I am concerned about it people who have 1-click purchases turned on and who might 'some how' accidently purchase this.

But... I guess it is the same for any future apps which might also cost $999.99 (medical apps maybe?)

Maybe Apple can put a security filter on which prevents 1-click purchases for apps over a certain price point? I know that defeats the purpose of 1-click, but I think that particular feature was designed for free or cheap apps and songs!

Just my 2 cents worth!

Christina, you do a great job and I always enjoy your articles... Keep it up!

We should make an app called "I am poor" and give it away for free. I actually already made such a program, but it currently says "Hello world". Given enough time, I could probably hack it to say something else...