I Am Rich iPhone App Totally Useless, Costs $1,000, For Jerks

**UPDATE** The "I Am Rich" app has been removed from the app store. Silicon Alley Insider has more.

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While many of the apps in Apple's (AAPL) iPhone App Store are useful, some are utter crap. And the latest, spotted by John Gruber, is an insult to all the well-meaning developers that Apple made wait/are still waiting to get into the iPhone developer program.

i-am-rich-screen.jpgBehold: "I Am Rich," a $999.99 app from Armin Heinrich, which just displays a red gem on the phone's screen -- nothing else.

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Comments

[FiveSecondRule]

I'm using a pirated version of this app (a screenshot from the developer's site) as the wallpaper on my iPhone, and it really works!

[FogBelter]

"There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum (?)

[dicktracyson]

lol indeed

[InstantDogma]

Actually P.T. Barnum never actually said that or anything of the sort.
However, the point is true.

3 Rules for living:
1. Never eat at a place called Mom's.
2. Never play cards with a man called Pop.
3. A fool and his money are not only soon parted. They were lucky to get together in the first place.
Steve

[yesyesyes]

News you can use? My wife got an iPhone last week. Coolest eva!

[Destin]

I think it's time Apple fires Jobs a second time. ;)

[MaracaKabob]

Do explain your thinking behind this post.

[BarryLeonardini]

How about iNeverDie ? Virtual immortality through a looping dialogue with images in unexciting mode which will make it more believable.

[the964kid]

I'd love to find out how many chumps bought that.

[bavb63]

The guy who created this app has the right idea. The vain idle rich will find this extremely appealing. Its about being rich enough to drop $1000 for nothing. This app has a market. Have you ever worked with any of these hedge fund millionaires? They love this stuff.

[Bettysdad]

This is brilliant!

Digital performance art.

[Sundialsvc4]

A fool ... and his money ... and a nice juicy article in a major web-site ... I'll bet this guy has more-than-a-few $1,000 bills by now.

[fletc3her]

That is so lame. It's real too. Is there no quality control?

[TrooAmerican]

Ash Wholes

his name "Armin HeinRich" must have something to do with the "I am Rich" theme.

[MaracaKabob]

I bought this iPhone app, and the very next day I found $10,000 in a hat.

[InternationalObserver]

What? Without having to text everyone in your address book "I bought this app" first?

[JScott]

I thought it was what they showed for HAL on 2001 Space Odessey....creepy.

[ROFLMAO]

I got one on 14th street for $20 - a genuine Urmin Hunrich!

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Too funny.
Does it come with a sales tax loophole?

[navalvet]

I believe that all downloads may be free of sales tax.

[InternationalObserver]

Hmmm. Maybe I could sell an "Pay-No-Sa­les-Tax-On­-Downloads­-Ever! liscence" app to the unwary?