{"id":254,"date":"2008-08-08T13:56:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2008-08-08T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T17:56:34","slug":"hilariously-frivolous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/08\/hilariously-frivolous\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilariously Frivolous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok.\u00a0 So because the 2nd Gen iPhones were so &#8216;affordable&#8217; some developer out there made a completely frivolous show-off app called <strong>I Am Rich<\/strong>.\u00a0 It costs the maximum application cost in the iTunes store ($999.99) and it&#8217;s only purpose is to let people know you have money to burn (when you start the application all it does is display a cheap looking glowing ruby).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_255\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/iamrichscreen_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255\" title=\"I Am Rich\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/iamrichscreen_2.jpg\" alt=\"I Am so totally Rich\" width=\"250\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Am so totally Rich<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time for you to decide which is more ridiculous:<\/p>\n<p>1. 8 people purchased this application &#8212; 6 from the US, 1 from France and 1 from Germany.<\/p>\n<p>2. Apple was so offended by the application that they removed it from the store, even though it didn&#8217;t technically violate any terms of the iPhone Developer contract.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to decide myself.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s gone now.\u00a0 So all of you fat cats out there will have to sling your money at something else.\u00a0 Too bad you didn&#8217;t get a change to download it in time.<\/p>\n<p>And you thought you lost out when Apple pulled down the <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/8301-13549_7-10004278-30.html\" target=\"_blank\">NetShare tethering app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/technology\/2008\/08\/iphone-i-am-ric.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story on I Am Rich on the LA Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok.\u00a0 So because the 2nd Gen iPhones were so &#8216;affordable&#8217; some developer out there made a completely frivolous show-off app called I Am Rich.\u00a0 It costs the maximum application cost in the iTunes store ($999.99) and it&#8217;s only purpose is to let people know you have money to burn (when you start the application all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71,26,124,125],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-and-raves","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-apps","tag-itunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}