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Reminds me of the I Am Rich app on iOS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
by dddddaviddddd 7y ago
Reminds me of the I Am Rich app on iOS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
- _bxg1 7y agoWas just about to link this. Although the OP sounds much more insidious; I Am Rich was pretty up-front about everything.
- CaptainZapp 7y agoThere's a massive difference to the app you link to. The I Am Rich App was totally upfront about what you get. Namely: You pay 999$ for a red gem (as I recall) on your phone's display. There was nothing sneaky or underhanded about it. Essentially it was an app for people who wanted to prove that they have money to blow, but coughed from smoking cigars, lighted with 100$ bills. The idiocy of it was part of the concept, but the app was very upfront about what it does and what it costs. This is different in that you get a crappy, redundant app, which is "free", but sneaks a very expensive subscription model of which you are not aware, which is not really mentioned (or if, then in very dark patterns) and of which it's very hard to get out. The first is, arguably, an expensive piece of conceptual art (not on the phone, but on a meta level) the second model is outright fraud. What's discussed here is very different.