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Bad Apple

When I first saw that Armin Heinrich posted an iPhone app to the App Store called "I Am Rich", I thought: "Brilliant". This program displays nothing but a red gem, and has no function but to display your wealth to others through ownership. The app costs $1000. Conceptual art that strikes the perfect note. This idea is so perfectly a self-contained commentary on so many levels. It's so good, in fact, that the "man" had to keep something like this down. Too bad the "Man" in this case is Apple, who pulled the application from the iPhone App Store. You can read more about it on Kottke.org.

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