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$999.99 “I am Rich” application pulled from Apple’s App Store
Friday, August 08, 2008
In any case, just like I mentioned in my rant against people complaining about the black markets evolving in WoW, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this app. If people were dumb enough to buy it. so be it. Besides… maybe they weren’t dumb. Maybe they were genuinely trying to prove that they were rich. Posted by: Nick in
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In what I beleive is a wrong decision, Apple has decided to take down a $999.99 applicaton created by Heinrich, a German fellow. The application which apparently does nothing but show a red background with a cube was pulled down but not before 8 people actually bought it! That’s $5,600 in net revenue for Heinrich (after Apple’s cut). [Apple gets the other 30%] It is not clear why the app was pulled off the store as it does not break any of the agreements between Heinrich and the conditions for selling an App. The irony would be if Apple decided to pull it off indefinitely and Heinrich sued Apple for another ridiciulous amount. The 
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