WHAT? Are you rich?

[whooleytoo]

I'm hoping to release a game in the next couple of weeks, and I've given a lot of thought to the price I'll sell it at.

I considered making it as cheap as possible, but then most people will just skim over it thinking it must be rubbish. In two weeks time, there'll probably be nearly 1000 games on the App Store, most of them dirt cheap "match 3" clones; and it's going to be VERY hard to make an app stand out.

Which is why I'm considering making the app MORE expensive. If you make the most expensive iPhone game out there, it has to get a lot of press. Just like this one.

Ok, I'm not going to sell it for $1K, but still, the point's valid.

 

[View]

Maybe a little too late to "show off" my "copy" of the "I Am Rich" app.
Of course I paid $999.99 for this damn app (just to be able to show off!!!)

 

[kockgunner]

Wrong.... diamonds are NOT RARE at all, your perception of diamonds created by advertising has made you think this way. There are tons, and TONS of diamonds in storage to keep the market the way they want it. Diamonds are a shiny rock and people pay thousands, even millions for them.

This app is about perception, not value, this app is a perfect example of a free market, it's worth what people pay.

Pictures are a dime a dozen... even the painted kind? Like the works of art worth millions? Everyone has their own idea of what has value, and clearly we all differ in that opinion.

I don't see value in the app either but I that's the great thing about art, it's wroth what the market will bring. While on vacation up near Yellowstone park I just watched a man purchase a carved wooden bear for $14,500 + tax and paid lord knows what to have it shipped to his home. To me it was rather ugly.. big chunk of wood, but to each his own.

Perception and value... things that make you mmmm....

it's people like you who, in the name of political correctness or whatever, devalue the meaning of art. whatever happened to real talent from artists like michaelangelo and da vinci who made works of art that actually took a little more than 2 minutes in photoshop?

 

[silexicon]

As brilliant as ripping stupid people off maybe with this app, the people that buy this app are people that make the US look very ignorant...

Enough said.

 

[Sinsinnati]

Maybe a little too late to "show off" my "copy" of the "I Am Rich" app.
Of course I paid $999.99 for this damn app (just to be able to show off!!!)

LOL, is that a wife beater shirt?

 

[bbplayer5]

Maybe a little too late to "show off" my "copy" of the "I Am Rich" app.
Of course I paid $999.99 for this damn app (just to be able to show off!!!)

Maybe you should have kept that money and bought... oh I dont know... a better place to live?

 

[View]

Maybe you should have kept that money and bought... oh I dont know... a better place to live?

Hmm, so you really think I was that stupid, huh?
I was being sarcastic if you couldn't tell....

 

[whit1009]

ROFL. Getting a little excited over this?

You need a mac first of all. If you have never coded in your life than i would defiantly not bother wasting your time. I just was able to get a mac, and im beginning to use it. Is it learn able? Yes. In a day/week/month time frame? No.


If you want to do stuff like this, i suggest looking into X Code, C++, etc .

LOL nah, I think this is the dumbest app I've ever seen (truly cannot believe Apple let this happen), but I have a mac and I want to make some.

 

[sminman]

If someone truly has this app then post a picture of the secret montra for all of us to see.

That is the only proof that can be offered to prove it's real.

 

[Firefly2002]

Here's a preview of my new app... I Am Poor

I've got it. No, wait for it.....

Okay. So you offer this in two versions, though both are identical:

One, is a free, I Am Poor app, which anyone can download. The second, is a $999.99 I Am Poor app, indistinguishable from the free version, except for a secret code you can enter that confirms the price when amongst others you suspect might just be as rich as you are and want to show your true colors to. The expensive version is for rich people who want to feel like they're roughin' it, while still placing themselves above the poor schmucks who couldn't afford the $999.99 poor rock.

It's genius.

 

[jacktiernan]

Affluenza anyone?

Sigh.

 

[Evangelion]

If Apple keeps allowing this garbage into the App store, they will kill what they worked so hard to create. There are so many terrible Apps, this one is a complete slap in the face to allow this into the App store!

How do you determine if an app is "crap" or not? We would then have developers complaining "why is my app considered crap, whereas this other similar app is not?"

All the crap in the App store is getting tiring and will quickly turn a lot of people off for good.

Well, most of the songs in iTunes are crap as well, but that hasn't "turned people off". Also, iTunes has about 5 MILLION songs to choose from, so finding the good songs is even harder than finding the few apps you like from the few hundred apps that currently are in iTunes.

Besides, in the end, the good apps will keep on selling, while the crap gets forgotten.

The iPhone will no longer be taken seriously and will not move into the corp. market once it develops a bad name because of crap Apps.

Yeah, because we all know that ALL the apps that are available for Symbian, Windows Mobile etc. are absolute gold ...

 

[gsmumbo]

Can't wait to see someone hack this program to be free. Then bam! All of a sudden everyoneee is rich. haha

 

[Dipdip]

How do you determine if an app is "crap" or not? We would then have developers complaining "why is my app considered crap, whereas this other similar app is not?"

Do you seriously think this app isn't absolute crap?

 

[SwiftLives]

Do you seriously think this app isn't absolute crap?

Does it matter?

 

[irun5k]

Bye bye, all credibility to the app store. Seriously, Steve got his pants all in a wad over the MobileMe fiasco. Has he even looked at what has happened to the app store? I thought all the public domain books being sold as individual apps was bad. But this?

The guy who wrote this also sells a calculator that is pretty weak. Now, I'm almost wishing Apple would charge a hundred bucks or something to submit each new app- just to keep middle schoolers in their bedrooms from submitting apps. I don't mind people writing crap apps, but just don't give them credibility by hosting them in such a prestigious location as the app store. Change the rules and make these kids host this crap on their own web site or something, with customers warned to install at their own risk.

How many of these crap developers are even reporting their income? They are required by law to report this, typically via a Schedule C on your tax return. Also, you have to have a zoning permit to conduct business in your house, if that is where you are developing software.

 

[guet]

How do you determine if an app is "crap" or not?

Comparing it to this one would make a good start. If it does nothing, or appears to be nothing more than self-promotion, it should never get on there.

The level of quality on the app store is embarrassing (along with this one there are several stupid torch apps). I have no respect for the developer, and very little for Apple's vetting process if they're letting this kind of crap through.

 

[Dipdip]

Does it matter?

Yeah it does.

 

[SwiftLives]

Yeah it does.

I stand corrected.

"Piece of crap" is subjective. And I somehow doubt that there's any misrepresentation on the developer's part. So that's a tricky claim to...um...a tricky...um...

hmmm.

It's a $999 application that displays a rendered picture of a glowy red gem.

And I'm finding myself getting really agitated while trying to defend it.

I think that means I need to set the wine glass down for awhile and take my blood pressure medicine and go sleep.

...And have dreams of glowy red gems that I'll never be able to afford.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I don't understand why people are getting so up in arms about this. Apple is just letting all apps through that don't break any rules. There's no 'standard'. This app is basically just like those flashlight apps, it works just the same way. If you don't want it then don't buy it. Have a good day and don't worry about it.

 

[sushi]

What I find interesting, is how some folks are getting so upset about this app.

Sure it is a extremely limited app (only shows a picture) and has an outrageous price ($999.99) but who cares?

It is listed as such.

No one is forcing anyone to purchase this item.

What will really be funny, is that if this developer actually sells a few copies of this app. He will have the last laugh.

 

[Coletrain17]

Yeah

I love this app so I bought it 10 times so it could go on each of my iphones!

 

[maokh]

Nice PR stunt. good for apple. good for the appstore. good for the developer.

 

[TheMacBookPro]

Maybe a little too late to "show off" my "copy" of the "I Am Rich" app.
Of course I paid $999.99 for this damn app (just to be able to show off!!!)

Hmm... why does your 2G iPhone (I think I saw black on bottom of the back and grey on the top) show 3G connectivity
next to the AT&T logo?

 

[Avicdar]

What do you think Steve thinks?

I'm willing to bet that the moment Jobs sees this, he will not see the humor in it.

Apples rep is something that Steve takes pretty serious, I imagine. While this may be funny to most, its corporately embarrassing. Not the kind of press Apple needs or likes.