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FOT Community => Links => Topic started by: Beth on August 07, 2008, 01:54:47 PM
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I don't know whether to admire or loathe the dude that created this iphone application.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/pay-1000-for-an.html
(http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/pay-1000-for-an.html)
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loathe. easy
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i guess it's kind of a sick admiration for someone who would so blatantly rip off people and get away with it. Also because 99.9 percent of the people who are buying this application are total jerks, so i don't feel bad for them either. At the same time:
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Capitalism, what a country!
Here you call phone party line in my country party phones YOU!
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You know what kind of people would buy it, too. It should be called "I am all show" or something like that. $1,000 isn't that much money anyway, but it's $1,000 too high a price for such trash.
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I guess it matters if people were actually buying it or not- I can't imagine anyone purchased it expecting it to do anything, so how is the creator ripping anyone off? After all, I'm sure looking cool with a fancy new device was a factor for more than a few iPhone owners.
I feel it necessary to note that I am currently typing this on an iPod Touch, but it was partially free.
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the guys awesome, whats wrong with it? who's getting scammed? rich snobs.
he's not ripping off some poor old lady or exploiting some naive teenager
I think its brilliant.
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Apple pulled it when some guy who had enabled one click buy accidentally bought it.
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who gives a shit? who's the victim here? I hate fake outrage.
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Well, the big outrage is that a bunch of apps are lined up waiting for Apple's approval and they let this one in. That's why people are upset.
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if that elicits outrage, people have way to little shit to worry about.
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I think it's pretty hilarious.
Also great are the "I am a proud republican" and "I am a proud democrat" applications, which for a couple of bucks will display a little picture of a donkey or elephant on your phone.
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if that elicits outrage, people have way to little shit to worry about.
You wouldn't be upset if you had a good application to sell that still needed approval while this was already out there? People are making thousands of dollars on $5.99 apps. I'd be extremely upset.
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This is incredibly stupid. Unfortunately, there are a lot of those very affluent types who would buy a burlap sack full of donkey turds if you told them it was the fashionable thing to do.
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a burlap sack full of donkey turds
WHY AM I WRITING THIS AND NOT DEVELOPING MY MONEY-MAKING iPHONE DONKEYTURD APP???!!
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This is incredibly stupid. Unfortunately, there are a lot of those very affluent types who would buy a burlap sack full of donkey turds if you told them it was the fashionable thing to do.
Poor people can be just as stupid with their money as rich people.
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I would be upset that the guy filed to have his app approved before me, but I wouldn't be outraged. I might be more outraged if it was somebody at apples brother and he hd been given preferential treatment, but if he was just before me in line then to me there is not reason for outrage.
just my opinion, though. to me there are more important things.
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If this guy submitted his app before me, then I would have no reason to get upset. Even if his app is useless, he was still in line before me.
Plus, the guy who accidentally bought it through "iclick" clicked buy "to see what would happen." Sounds pretty stupid to me.
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That's definitely dumb- he can obviously claim that it was a mistake to buy it, but crying that it's a scam because he did something stupid is different.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/technology/11apple.html?no_interstitial
As first reported by The Los Angeles Times, eight people bought the application, earning its developer $5,600, his 70 percent share. (Apple got the rest.)
He doesn't seem averse to giving people their money back:
Mr. Heinrich was bombarded with e-mail and phone messages, “many of them insulting,” he said. “It’s O.K. to return the money. I did not want to harm anybody with my app.”
I have to agree that this is pretty hilarious.
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I like that he jokingly clicked buy as a joke.
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I like that he jokingly clicked buy as a joke.
This reminds me of the time that I applied for that mortgage "just for goofs!"
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I like that he jokingly clicked buy as a joke.
But in the end,"it's not a joke".
Full circle.
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I keep seeing the title of this thread, and every time I read it it I think of that Yeah Yeah Yeahs song, I'm Rich.