"The application was removed from the App Store without explanation by Apple the day after its release, August 6, 2008"

Would be interesting to know the thought process for doing this.

It generated support complaints and provided no value to the user.

The value is there. People buy useless shit all of time to show off their wealth. Is there any difference between having a $10,000 app or having a $100+ cosmetic skin in a game?

It embarrassed Apple.

Seeing prices list from 2008 having "today's dollars" is really scaring me.