Apple removes “I Am Rich” App, plus Site Update News

Posted by: Michael on Aug 8, 2008 | 1 Comment

Hey everyone! It’s been a long couple of days here at the Murphey house. My daughter had her tonsils removed early Thursday morning. Since I don’t normally go to sleep until around 2 or 3 am - and we had to be up and running at 4am - I ended up not sleeping on Wed. night at all.

The tonsil surgery went smoothly and everything has been going swell, but she was having some serious nausia with the pain medicine she has to take, so on Thursday night we spent from 11am to 1am at the ER getting some anti-vomit medicine. In all of this I have had about 2 hours worth of sleep - so updates will be sparse today, if at all. There will be no Apple Gazette Daily - but things will return to normal on Monday.

I didn’t want to leave you with no update today, though - and I’m really happy to report that Apple has removed “I Am Rich” from the App Store after receiving several complaints. The App was actually purchased by 8 people before it was pulled from the store, and we know that at least ONE of those was an accident…because the purchaser left a very long “review” of the application explaining his situation, and begging for his money back.

An application in the App Store should have at least SOME kind of feature. The creator of the App insists its a “work of art” with a “lifestyle mantra” that you get when you purchase it.

Whatever.

I’m going to get some sleep.

Big Bang Sudoku for iPhone - Review

Posted by: Michael on Jul 22, 2008 | 3 Comments

There are a lot of Sudoku options for iPhone owners. All of them have a varying level of quality to them, but one of the ones I was looking forward to trying the most was Freeverse’s “Big Bang Sudoku”.

Freeverse originally released this as a web-app before native applications were an option, and my wife was a fan of the web version. The big question for her was, will the native application be good enough to justify paying for it, when the web version she was already used to was free?

The answer is a resounding “yes”.
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Wait a minute - 2010? What happened to the Apple/AT&T 5 Year deal?

Posted by: Michael on Aug 4, 2008 | 4 Comments

This weekend USA Today posted an interview with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. Several other blogs posted about it - and all of them have focused on one thing — the idea that the iPhone exclusivity deal has been “extended” to 2010.

There’s only one real problem with the report. 2010 isn’t an extension of anything…depending on which USA Today article you believe.

When the Apple/AT&T deal was originally made, it was a five year deal. (My source for that? A USA Today article from May 2007). Now Apple and AT&T originally began their discussions in 2005. So even if you wanted to go back and claim that the exclusive began from the time they began working together, and not from the time the first phone was released - it would still be 2010 when it expired…and not an extension.
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Apple Gazette Daily 322 - Rumors, lawsuits, and $999 Apps - Oh My!

Posted by: Michael on Aug 6, 2008 | No Comments

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AGTV - Should you upgrade to the iPhone 3G?

Posted by: Michael on Jun 16, 2008 | 13 Comments

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