tl;dr

This is genius. I think. I’m almost certain. It’s an program in the iTunes App Store that costs £599.99 and does nothing at all except display this picture:

The purpose of the pic is to “always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were able to afford this.”

I’m somewhat surprised Apple put this up, but I suppose it doesn’t actually violate any of the App Store guidelines to ship an insanely expensive app that does nothing at all. Wonder if anyone has bought it yet? And in a world where mechanical wrist watches can cost hundreds of thousands of pounds but keep worse time than a £5 quartz-based electric one, is £599 for a picture on your phone actually a bad deal? If you’re feeling charitable to the app’s author, you could even say this is something of a subversive comment on people who drop the price of a decent car on a jewel-encrusted mobile phone that doesn’t actually do anything the standard one doesn’t. Except shout, very loudly, “my owner is SOOOO VERRRRYYYY RIIIICCCHHHH”.

Wonder if they’d send me a review copy.

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