August 2008: Apple removes I Am Rich, a $1,000 application created by German developer Armin Heinrich that does nothing except display a picture of a glowing ruby on the iPhone screen. Remarkably, eight iPhone subscribers shell out a grand each for the I Am Rich app before Apple yanks it. "I have no idea why they did it and am not aware of any violation of the rules to sell software on the App Store," Heinrich writes in an e-mail to The Los Angeles Times. "The App is a work of Art and included a 'secret mantra'--that's all." Take a look at the video
