I couldn’t let this little “gem” (hehe) of a story go by without commenting on how warm and fuzzy it made me feel inside, what with my general distrust of Apple products and product purchasers. Apparently I’m not the only one who sees them for the status-symbolitians that they really are (ok, I’m having a little fun at their expense here, but you have to admit there is a certain amount of exclusivity built in to the possession of an iPhone.) German software developer Armin Heinrich was so sure that some iPhone purchasers love overpriced shtuff so much that they’ll buy pretty much anything that he wrote a $1,000 application and sold it through Apple’s app store. What does this $1,000 app do, you might ask? Nothing. It does nothing except display a picture of a ruby (which is really the champaigne of stones).

While I can appreciate the snarkitude of such an undertaking, even I was surprised the L.A. Times report that said 8 people actually bought the quickly-famous app before the Fruity Ones yanked it.