Did Anybody Buy It?

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 06, 2008

Dan Frommer at Silicon Alley Insider relates the tale of “I Am Rich,” an iPhone App that does nothing other than display the image of a reddish gem on the screen, yet costs $999.99, and which, for reason as yet mot fully understood, was briefly made available on the iTunes App store. It has now been removed. The only question now is, did anyone buy it? And how the heck did it get there in the first place? The likely scenario probably involves loose controls on prices in the app submission process. But seriously? Was there no human intervention?

Update: Unclear if anyone bought it, but Valleywag notes screen-grabbed a bunch of reviews of supposed “users,” one of which says that having been rich and bought it, he’s now poor. “Perhaps this will be fixed in a future update?”
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Update 2: Yes someone actually did buy it, apparently by mistake.

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