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[...] iPhone apps, it has removed what has been perhaps its most controversial application so far, Cult of Mac points out. Maybe the company read some of the criticism on this site and others, or maybe it just realized [...]

Roundup: Apple remote app deactivation, the $1,000 app vanishes, Zoho hits 1 million users and more » VentureBeat, on August 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

My only problem with I Am Rich was my fear that I could have accidentally purchased it. My daughter has a Touch and was using my iTunes account to download all the free apps she could. It would have been really bad if she’d purchased I Am Rich in a frenzy of downloading. Otherwise, I thought it was pretty funny that Apple let that one through but withdrew Box Office.

Inglesh Profeserr, on August 7th, 2008 at 5:23 am

What would stop someone from using the same (or really really close) graphics and icons and putting a FREE app out there called I Am Smart? That would be the immediate end of I Am Rich, and make the dopes who had bought it feel really (REALLY!) dumb.

PowerBookMac, on August 7th, 2008 at 7:09 am

I don’t have that many, but I know several people who have accidentally purchased applications. Realistically, this might be as much a flaw in Apple’s store function, but if/until that gets worked out, in the mean time apps like this shouldn’t exist (and shouldn’t have been let into the app store in the first place).

Plus if anyone disputes the charge on an item like this, Apple could get stuck eating a pretty big error.

Peter, on August 7th, 2008 at 7:27 am

I think Apple should fully have the right to decide what gets sold on their platform…it’s THEIR platform. It would be nice, however, for them to, perhaps, pre-screen apps so consumers like us don’t get upset when they pull cool apps…we just won’t know they exist through an authorized channel…there’s always the jailbreak option, right?

keith, on August 7th, 2008 at 7:42 am

So I am Rich is too expensive for what it does and therefore it is illegal to sell according to Apple. Man, I know lots of folks who feel that Photoshop CS3 is way too expensive - is it legal to pirate it then?

Itchy, on August 8th, 2008 at 10:31 am

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[...] a “secret” mantra: “I am richI deserv itI am rich,healthy &successful.”Cult Of Mac mourns the loss of the app from the app store. 3 other apps have also been pulled from the store recently with no [...]

8 people buy the iPhone app “I Am Rich” | Chronicles of a Techoholic, on August 11th, 2008 at 3:34 am

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iPhone aplikace za 999,99 dolarů: I Am Rich, on August 21st, 2008 at 8:53 pm