As reported on MacDailyNews, software developper Armin Heinrich has created a $999 iPhone app, simply called “I Am Rich.” The app, which Heinrich claims has “no hidden function,” displays a small red ruby to “always remind you (and others when you show it to them) that you were able to afford this.” You might want to turn off 1-click purchasing… (Update: This app has now been removed from the iTunes Store.)
Think the iPhone is the only phone of its kind? An article (lovingly titled “Apple Suck-Up Watch”) in online magazine Slate points out that it may not be as advanced as Apple would like you to think. Check out Helio’s Ocean phone, which, according to Slate, was released a month earlier and is $200 cheaper. Wonder if it’s available in Canada…
Steve Jobs, from a press release today on the upcoming arrival of the iPhone from Apple:
“We can't wait to get this truly magical product into the hands of customers….”
From an article in today’s New York Times about the new iPhone commercials:
“Pacific Catch, a restaurant in San Francisco whose phone number appeared momentarily in one of the iPhone ads, averaged 100 extra calls a day the next week, the general manager, Rob Schechtman, said. Apple’s ad agency got the restaurant’s permission beforehand.
“Most callers are merely curious if it is a real restaurant, while others are more persistent. ‘Some people ask about the iPhone — when it was coming out and how much it would cost,’ Mr. Schechtman said. ‘And I say, “We’re a restaurant, not an Apple Store.”’ The restaurant’s computer system, he said, is actually PC-based.”
