Back in the early days of the App Store, a developer released a $999 app called “I am rich” that did nothing more than display an image of a jewel. That app would have been more aptly titled “I have more money than brains,” but I digress. If you believe in the philosophy that only the best, or more accurately, the most expensive will do it for you, developer Paul Masson has come your rescue. Masson has created Luxury Apps and Luxury Apps HD for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad respectively.
For the relatively modest but still over-priced tariff of $9.99, Luxury Apps searches the App Store for the priciest bundles of bits available. It then provides a list starting with the most expensive apps grouped by category. While there are certainly some outstanding apps available with prodigious price tags, these are typically specialty items for specific uses. The people that will spend $500-1,000 on BarMax are probably not searching for these apps by price, but rather by functionality, and don’t need something like Luxury Apps HD to help them. This app is clearly targeted at the same customers who would be marks for P.T. Barnum. In fact the customer base that might want an app like this might be more interested in a Vertu phone than an iPhone anyway.
Aside from Luxury Apps, Masson has several other apps that look more worthy of checking out such as Word Trainer (for intense Scrabble players) and Obscure Apps.
[via MacMegasite]
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