I wonder how Rich feels about all this?

There are two types of buyers for this app: 1) people who have the money and want the app, i.e. customers and 2) people who think it's a joke.

Throw up a warning, which I'm sure Heinrich wouldn't mind, and you can deter the second type. Where's the scam? Scam indicates there's something rotten.

It's not Apple's job or responsibility to protect people from themselves.

Based on the coverage in the LA Times, I think we can assume that of the six people in the US who bought it, there are several in LA. Plus, having lived there for a while, I'm not at all surprised.

It is a genius idea, and he should get paid and be able to keep the app up, maybe with a “this ain't a joke, so joke-buy at your own risk” warning.

The one-click problem is evidenced by the guy who bought it as a joke. If that's true, the joke was on him, especially when his wife catches him.

Funny you mention a thought that I head, i.e. using the image copy function in Safari from my iPhone, copying it and using it as my wallpaper.

I'm going to do that right now

I don't see Apple as censoring the apps; rather, they're protecting the public from being scammed by spending an extravagant amount for an app that is only an icon. They would do the same if an app claimed to do something it didn't.

If it said that it did something that it didn't actually do, then yeah, remove it. But it said exactly what it did.

Unless you make crazy amounts of money, why would you even ponder buying it?

I'm mad I didn't think of something like that!

That being said, it's inside the TOS, BUT it is bad for 1 click purchasers. Also, with hundreds of developers trying to get into the program and nary an ssh client to be found, it is a little ridiculous.

Get the screenshot and be pseudo-rich.

The bigger issue is that Apple can censor apps w/no explanation, even if they meet the t/c. Sure, we know they can, but the fact that they do seems wrong.