The $1000 iPhone App

Posted by on Feb 8, 2010 | 46 Comments

There should be an image here!Imagine for a second, one single application on the iPhone’s app store for a solid grand USD. Yes, there have been other applications in the Apple app store that have cost this much money, but this might be the first one that could actually warrant such a cost.

Described as an application to help with would be attorneys pass their bar exam, it is available for sale at a cool $999. Despite what some critics have exclaimed, it is a very well rounded application that provides all of the assistance tools needed to law students looking to pass the bar when it comes time. So I suppose to a select audience with more money than sense, this is a great fit.

But there is something difficult for non-enterprise users to get their minds around here. Spending about a grand on something that is not really a tangible item, is not something most of us who work for a living can really get our heads around. Personally, I am thinking that a fully loaded netbook with all the resources of the Internet, would do just as well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/boulderjunk Robin Allen McCracken

    In America, I am having much more trouble with bill collectors tracking me thru my Cable TV subscription than I ever had with Facebook.

  • http://twitter.com/bsousmusic b.sous music

    Okay, This is quite frustrating. The option for “action” in my inbox is not there and I can not remove myself from conversation.

  • Zachary McIlvoy

    did you pirillo YouTube!!? it wont let me post…

  • Manish Agarwal

    Excellent video – really like the earnestness, Chris!

  • John Baker

    Dude, I So need a 1.5 T external! If you and Seagate could hook me up that would be a real blessing.

    • http://twitter.com/SF_Living Suzi Kissinger

      love seagate.. love this solution. Sad story, I killed my HD on my HP laptop while in the middle of a client transaction.. :( switched to my MAC, and on the hunt for, finally!, a backup HD. A Free one would work with my budget!

  • http://www.facebook.com/blakeaweber Blake Weber

    Love the seagate products. I have a desktop model and the bus optons are great.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=519317456 John Cone

    seagate is pretty awesome — I have never had any problems with their drives — and CHRIS LOVE the vids — I have been following you from way back in the day like since 1998 a fellow midwesterner (i am from the dakotas)

  • Chuck Cortes

    Chris comes thru as usual. The dude rocks and this drive has enough space to carry all his videos with you. :)

  • http://twitter.com/rockcampbell Dave Campbell

    I could really use one of those.

  • http://twitter.com/fixgadget FixGadget

    I’ll take one. All my drives are Seagate with the exception of a WD Live NAS I picked up for $80 @ BB.

  • http://twitter.com/fixgadget FixGadget

    I cracked open one of my WD Essentials external USB drive I purchased a few years ago and it had a Seagate 250GB drive in it.

  • l m larson

    ooh, I good place to keep all of my art / music / books !!!

  • http://twitter.com/ElviraGallegos Elvira Gallegos

    As an unemployed student, I could really use this harddrive for my upcoming Sound Design class. It would be great to have something like that to hold and store all my class multimedia projects (which take up a lot of space). I love Seagate!!

  • http://twitter.com/JHCDigital Jesse Catlin

    Just got a new Macbook Pro and this would be a perfect accessory!

  • http://twitter.com/mkartchner Michael Kartchner

    Great review, and I am a big believer in Time Machine!!!

  • http://twitter.com/dhubbart Dustin Hubbart

    Please send it my way! I will take it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/wa0zog Mike Miller

    Nice looking drive! I like the form factor, especially for that amount of storage space. It would certainly be a handy addition to the laptop bag.

  • Raven-Christopher Richardson

    Sounds great!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=568030957 Dan Reain

    Thanks, please put me in the running!

  • http://twitter.com/computerbugg Ken Buxton

    Add me

  • Abel Luna

    Awesome. Giveaway

    • http://twitter.com/techrob53 Robert Kimball

      Awesome, and no better deal than FREE.

  • Sarah Doxiadis

    Chris,

    Giveaways and discounts really help your fellow geeks have useful geek tools, and give them the hands-on experience to try new products and spread the good words to the less geeky. Thanks to you for sharing. (Well, yes, this is a bit of a suck-up, but I really mean it! I wouldn’t say so if I didn’t think highly of both the man and the brand currently in discussion.)

    Ahh, love those self-powered drives! Just got a new (refurb) iMac and really need to replace my ageing Seagate wall-powered backup with a self-powered one that I could attach to my Airport Extreme. At last, my tiny, cramped desk would have some space on it! (I keep the Airport Extreme up on a dedicated “wireless” shelf above my desk.)

    I could use the older Seagate drive as a dedicated backup to my BootCamp volume, which needs less storage space and right now gets backed up a bit haphazardly onto a groaning thumbdrive.

  • Anonymous

    that would look sweet on my desk!!

  • Anonymous

    Yes please. Great video Chris. Thanks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/piscitell Jon Piscitell

    I could really use the drive. Mine just died, luckily I was able to back the data up to my friends computer but now he wants his space back.

  • http://twitter.com/Poochiepants David Boyer

    I was listening to some Daft Punk while I was watching your video. Good mashup.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=704780586 Rachel Jenkins

    Sweet! Nice giveaway. I would love to win this for my friend.

  • http://twitter.com/MJHProduction Mark J Hewitt

    Hey Chris,

    Great drive would love it :-) I just sold my T2i and purchased a new T3i and thought I would share with you that you can only record videos for 12 mins due to over heating and 4 gb file size limitation. So if you don’t mind recording and then shutting off your camera and then turning it back on then its a great camera.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UQWQX4CR6D75J7NVWU6NJSPUY4 Eddie Shafer

    Thanks for sponsoring the giveaway!

  • http://twitter.com/gemelv George M.

    This old guy would really like that great piece of technology. Thanks Chris.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7XOXRXB4UWXJWO7JMTBCH73QQU R

      Been needing a new external drive. Had concerns about Seagate Drives. However, this sounds like a terrific drive and investment. Thanks Chris!

  • http://twitter.com/BrijeshMehetre Brijesh Mehetre

    Give it to me.. I need it..

  • http://www.facebook.com/ag.wright1 Allen Wright

    Nice size for a portable drive. I’m still trying to fill my 350 gig drive.

  • Ronald Gerard

    Have One Of these, smaller tho; NOT a bad drive as external.

  • Anonymous

    Please give it to me; I am in need of a means of storage for ‘all’ my music and photographs. This harddrive is amazing and so compact. Very good explanaiton Chris. Thumbs up to you.

  • Robin Potter

    Wow Chris! The drive would be a great addition to my network and allow me to have extreme storage for all of my videos, photos and other graphics.

  • Anonymous

    Have save a lot of your newsletters and links. Ineed a place to put them. Put me in the running

  • http://www.facebook.com/digitalrico Ricky Cardio

    cool! i need this!

  • Adrion Winterhart

    I really like the idea of a external without needing a power supply as well. In school for Interactive Media Design, so extra storage space would awesome. Yes, use the camera. Give one away too!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002401708123 Kyle Stodard

    I really love it and I hope I get it for my Mac. I am a student that works on movies and my old verbatim (NEVER BUY VERBATIM!!) Broke and would love to get this for my Mac.

  • Anonymous

    Hi Chris:

    Nice job on the video. It’s amazing how much storage you can get now. By the way you never seem to age….you look the same as when I first saw you long ago!

  • John Crudden

    I like the idea of a giveaway. It perks my interest. The video explained the drive very well. Even if I don’t get a free one, I will look to purchase one. John.

  • Jack Pangborn

    Most assuredly a positive comment

  • http://www.facebook.com/stepanik Aaron Stepanik

    Never had any NAS device before. Would be nice to get something to try.