You remember the I Am Rich application, right? Of course you do, it’s the one we told you about last week. As horribly lame as it was, it ended up teaching us quite a bit. No, seriously. First of all, it taught us that Apple will seemingly approve any app out there so that it can collect its App Store entry fee. Apple will also shamelessly pull an app without giving the developer an explanation, as it did a few hours after we posted about I Am Rich. We also learned that there were eight people in this world dumb enough to spend $1,000 on this app; some accidentally and some reported to have done so intentionally. After all is said and done, we now get to see a great walkthrough to this controversial app and we’ll be damned if it wasn’t worth the trouble. Our favorite “feature” is the mantra:

I am rich
I deserv it

I am good,
healthy &
successful

Yes, for $1,000 you can’t even get a typo-free mantra. Too funny…

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Are you an iPhone developer who wants to make some serious cash? Write an app that identifies people who have purchased “I Am Rich” and then integrate with Google Maps to display their exact locations*. Developer Armin Heinrich (and we hesitate to call him a “developer”) has made his mark on Apple App Store history by creating what is undoubtedly the most ridiculous application in mobile phone history. In fact, if Heinrich makes even a single sale with the app we would say that society has collectively failed. What does “I Am Rich” do exactly? Nothing. It’s a $1,000 app that is intended to be a status symbol; it sits on your phone and displays the odd image shown above when you open it. Doesn’t quite have the same effect as, say, a nice watch or a Vertu. We would say that this is simply a great publicity stunt but the developer doesn’t have much else to show in the App Store. In fact, Heinrich’s only other App Store app at the moment is a $5 calculator with a $0.10 UI.

*BGR does not in any way condone violence… Unless it results in the removal of “I Am Rich” from someone’s iPhone.

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