Top 10 Expensive Android Apps

Android smartphones continue to fly off their shelves. According to a new report by IDC, Android now has 68.1% of the smartphone marketshare worldwide after experiencing 106% year-over-year growth.

“Android continues to fire on all cylinders,” said  Ramon Llamas, an analyst with IDC. “The market was entreated to several flagship models from Android’s handset partners, prices were well within reach to meet multiple budgetary needs, and the user experience from both Google and its handset partners boosted Android smartphones’ utility far beyond simple telephony.”

The Android Market was opened in 2008, a mere day after Google released the initial version of its mobile operating system. Since then Google has rebranded the Android Market, Google Play. In June 2012, Google announced that it currently had 600,000+ apps in the Google Play marketplace, just under Apple’s reported total of 650,000 in their App Store. The company also announced that over 20 billion android apps have been downloaded.

If you were looking for a list of most expensive android apps, the first thing you should recognize is that unlike the Apple App Store’s maximum price point of $999.99, Google only allows developers to charge at most $200 for their android apps.

10. I’m Rich!! (White Diamond) – $130.00

Described as a “non-functional app to place on the desktop of your Android Device to show off your Wealth.” Isn’t there a saying about how people don’t get rich by being stupid?

9. pcMapper Db – Nova Spatial – $149.00

Have a big passion for collecting GIS data and editing maps? We’ve got the app for you!

8. Anesthesia Central – Unbound Medicine, Inc – $149.95

Anesthesiologists can make a lot of money so they should be able to afford this app. I’m not sure I’d want an anesthesiologist that needs an app to tell him or her how to do their job though.

7. Nursing Central – Unbound Medicine, Inc – $159.95

Unbound Medicine dominates the upper end of Google Play apps with their medical reference apps. This app caters to both nurses and students, including Davis’s Drug Guide, Tabor’s Medical Dictionary and a study system to help aspiring nurses pass their exams.

5. Medicine Central – Unbound Medicine, Inc – $159.95

This app, intended for physicians, nurse practitioners and students, includes a “5-Minute Clinical Consult”, MEDLINE journals and resources on drugs and drug interactions. With all these medical apps, before you know it we won’t even need health care professionals!

4. MBE Preparation – e-BarReview – E-MBE, LLC – $199.99

Study for your bar exam inbetween games of Angry Birds or Words With Friends right on your android device! Just one easy payment of $199.99.

3. Vuvuzela World Cup Horn Plus – $200.00

Missing the sound of vuvuzela’s since the last world cup? Don’t fret! Download this simple app to hear the sound again. As the one app reviewer Kevin states, “This app is crap. For $200 it should come with a happy ending.“

2. The Most Expensive Play App – Etay Cohen-Solal $200

Another app that does nothing. You’d think maybe Google would just not approve these expensive worthless apps. The practice should be considered digital begging.

1. Got Cash? – Vishnu Menon – $200.00

Yep, this app is completely useless. It should probably be called, Do you want to get rid of cash? Thankfully it is compatible with all android devices.

Now you can stop staying laying awake at night wondering what is the most expensive android app.

[Source: Most-Expensive Journal]

Most Expensive Apple Computer

Before the iPad or the iPhone, before the iPod or even the Macintosh, a pair of Steves created what would be the first model in a long line of Apple computers. One of those computers has become the most expensive Apple computer in the world.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs met in 1971, when the latter was only 16 years old. Five years later, Jobs was able to convince a local computer store to buy fifty preassembled computers for the price of $500 each and, based on that purchase order, managed to convince a local hardware supplier to credit him the parts he needed to assemble the fifty computers. The two Steves assembled the fifty computers in time to pay off their credit and the Apple I went on sale for a marked up price of $666.66.

Apple Computer, Inc. went on to produce approximately 150 more Apple I computers before introducing the Apple II. It is considered the first commercially available personal computer, as computer hobbyists at the time usually had to purchase the parts and assemble them on their own.

The Apple I came with 4 KB of memory, which could be expanded to up to 48 KB, and a 1 MHz CPU. Users still needed to supply their own keyboard and monitor—in this case, oddly enough, a television set.

An original Apple I went on sale at Christie’s in London in November, 2010. The computer, model number 82, sold for over $210,000.

[Source: Most-Expensive Journal]

Most Expensive Apple MacBooks

Apple’s MacBook laptop computers may have gotten off to a rocky start in 2006, but that doesn’t mean things can’t get rockier still. Of course, we’re not talking about random shutdowns anymore. No, this time the rocks are diamonds and Swarovski crystals.

PowerMax Maxbook pro – $6,499 or $7,999

In late 2007, PowerMax introduced us to the gold-plated MacBook Pro. The 24k gold case, complete with diamond-studded Apple logo, housed a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and could be purchased in 15.4” and 17” models.

 

 

 

Bling My Thing MacBook Air – $40,000

The extraordinarily thin MacBook Air has been given the Swarovski treatment. The Golden Age MacBook Air is coated with 12,000 hand-set Swarovski crystals. These special lead crystals bring out the sparkle in the 24k gold plate that forms the laptop’s case. Only twenty of the expensive MacBook were made and it took about a week to place all those crystals by hand.

 

Stuart Hughes MacBook Air Supreme Ice Edition – $200,000

Stuart Hughes’ “Supreme” luxury devices are usually high-end consumer electronics with their outer shells swapped out for solid gold and buttons replaced with precious stones. With the MacBook Air, however, he’s gone a slightly different direction. This time, the shell is made of 2.5 kilograms of pure platinum. Of course, he hasn’t forgotten the stones–the Apple logo is made with 53 flawless diamonds weighing in at 25.5 carats. The most expensive MacBook in the world is a limited edition of only 10 notebooks.

[Source: Most-Expensive Journal]