"I am Rich" says smart Armin Heinrich through his iPhone App

If you ask me which is the killer App for Apple iPhone, I would say, "App Store", no doubt. All the developers who wanted to utilize the iPhone platform to develop Web Apps (or otherwise) were given SDK by Apple itself and were allowed to publish their Applications in "Apple App Store".

We know that the eco-system around Apple is pretty crazy and rich with enough "vitamin M". People are ready to shell out good bucks for the ease of use of technology and for the Sheer craze of technology. Smart coders made good money selling their Apps for as low as $ 0.99.

But here came one of the Smartest developer who had this weird idea of checking how crazy the Apple world was. His name is Armin Heinrich and he is quite in the radar these days for his (in)famous App, "I am Rich".  This App cost just $ 999.99 because that was the maximum that any App could cost in App Store as set by Apple. Oh Boy!!  If you wanted to see what it did, its screenshot is below. 

Screen Shot

The moment you activate this App, it glows on your iPhone/iPod Touch screen as shown in the snapshot. Thats it for One thousand Dollars!

I know what you'll think right now. 

• The Author of this App is crazy to expect people to buy this
• The Author should be appreciated for his Guts to publish such an asinine App.
• There would be no buyers for this App forever.

But here goes the fact :

• Apple obviously took out this App from the App-store within hours of publishing because this concept was ridiculous.
• Before it was taken off the shelf, EIGHT rich, crazy aristocrats bought this App!! 6 from USA, 1 each from Germany and France. Beat this !!
• A couple of them reported later that they thought it was a kind of joke and accidentally clicked it. So Apple refunded those guys. 

Now, you might think, people were very furious after buying this App. Armin Heinrich later said "I've got e-mails from customers telling me that they really love the app, and that they had "no trouble spending the money". NOW CAN THINGS GO MORE CRAZIER THAN THIS?

Armin is glad that the 2 guys got the refund for accidental click because he didn't want the money from those who didn't intend to spend crazily. Apple keeps 30% of the money earned through any App sold for "Store Upkeep" which earns him $ 3600 (from  6 customers). 

Its Armin's turn to say "I am Rich". What say?