That’s right, I just found the most expensive app in the app store today. It is called I am Rich. Simple enough. I found it to be so good that I bought it twice. It simply reminds you how rich you are. I like that, I always hate forgetting how rich I am. What a lonely world this world would be if I didn’t have my money with me.

I love the motivational talk it gives when you press the information icon in the lower right corner. Makes me appreciate my money even more. Thank you money for making me the man I am today.

There are a ton of new apps available since the app store was opened. The iPhone has the single largest repository of applications for a phone, but is the NDA preventing it from being even bigger?

An article from ars is talking about the sour points of the developers still being under NDA. They list a few examples of why this hurts, and can’t come up with good reasons for them to still be under NDA. I guess it is just the way of apple.

Ars lists the following problems

• Less Productive Coding
• No Books on Shelves - this cuts down on 3rd party sales
• Stability problems with the code
• Enforceability of the License agreement

But they also included a great quote about how this affects users and sentiment towards Apple:

The important thing is that Apple’s developers also have a lot of really positive things to say about Apple. I think it’s comparable to the mini-fiascos regarding the iPhone launch and MobileMe; are customers going to hold a long-term resentment against Apple because of some snags along the way? Not when the end product is as great as it is.

See the full article here.

Aurora Feint has been delisted form the App Store because they grabbed your contacts and uploaded them to their server unencrypted. What the fuck?

When we discovered that the Apple SDK allowed us to look through your contact list we thought it would be a great idea to automatically show you which friends are playing the game. Why automatically? Well, everyone always complains about the keyboard on the iPhone and how annoying it is to type on it. So we thought, “Hey, why don’t we make this feature REALLY easy to use – no typing!” And such, the community feature was born. Some people have said that it would have been ok if we had a better notice explaining what was going on. I agree! We weren’t trying to be sneaky about how this worked. It was just overlooked. No one we showed it to even asked a question about it – nor did we. It just simply never came up as a potential issue when we beta tested the game with early users.

Wow, I don’t know about you, but my top-hat and monocle fell off after reading this. I am in the process of recurling my mustache right now. At least they were trying to cause harm to the user, they are just shotty programmers not thinking they were going to become popular.

Hopefully they fix this and make it right.