$1000 isn't enough to charge to establish that someone is meaningfully wealthy; the app should have cost $10 million.
$1000 is rent for many people, it's one half to one third of their salary.
Yeah, 1000 is going to weed out a number of people but its not unreachable, should be more for 1000 we'll examine your financial situation and then grant you the ability to display the icon.
This was someone putting a drawing in an iPhone app bundle with a funny name and charging the highest price that Apple allowed developers to set.
It was brilliant. Made even more brilliant when the people who had actually paid for the app went on line, backpedalling, to explain how they had bought it on accident.
Why would someone spend the time and money to develop an app that is not monetized?
You’d need a server to manage state and that’s an ongoing cost as well. It doesn’t exist because it’s not economical to do so.
Nothing stops people from gold plating their iPhones or putting it in a jewel encrusted case - if you drop it better then gems take the blow then your phone, right? I’ve heard stories of überrich kids dropping $36k so they can rule on Clash of Clans, and grade school kids blowing their college funds on smurfberries to get ahead in whatever game uses those, and for the most part Apple is happy to let that happen but will step in with refunds to head off any media frenzy.
Has anyone tried to play Blackjack on an iPhone recently? It is almost impossible to find an app that lets you play any casino games without -buying chips- to play. Who is spending $99.99, $19.99, or $9.99 of real money to gamble X amount of fake money with real reward except being on a scoreboard for a day? If you just want to play just for fun you have to go onto web sites.