{"id":19630,"date":"2010-05-22T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T13:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=19630"},"modified":"2010-05-22T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T13:25:14","slug":"phone-security-pro-drops-from-399-to-0-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/22\/phone-security-pro-drops-from-399-to-0-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Security Pro Drops From $399 to $0.99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/05\/app-store-i-am-rich-the-slightly-overpriced-photo-for-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">I Am Rich<\/a> which retailed for $999.99 was later pulled and recently returned as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/itms\/Mark_Gurman-You_Are_Rich\" target=\"_blank\">You Are Rich<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, those were the good ol&#8217; App Store pricing days. Today, Phone Security Pro which made its debut onto the store on May 8th and then today received a price increase to $399.99, has today dropped in price to $0.99. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Call it a mistake on Apple&#8217;s part, a cry for exposure or simply the developer wanting to cash in on the current popularity of the App Store, this little app went from $0.99 to $399.99 in just 13 days of it being on the store. <\/p>\n<p>Phone Security Pro is nothing that we&#8217;ve not already seen before. In fact, its everything we&#8217;ve seen before. Displaying a realistic thumbprint scanner, the app gives the illusion you have an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with the ability to read fingerprint data through the touchscreen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2010-05-22-at-14.06.36.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, none of these devices are capable of doing this .. yet. Fun only for its novelty factor and definitely <em>not<\/em> an app I would like to plunk $399.99 down on, Phone Security Pro is just $0.99 for a limited time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/2008\/08\/05\/app-store-i-am-rich-the-slightly-overpriced-photo-for-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">I Am Rich<\/a> which retailed for $999.99 was later pulled and recently returned as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/itms\/Mark_Gurman-You_Are_Rich\" target=\"_blank\">You Are Rich<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, those were the good ol&#8217; App Store pricing days. Today, Phone Security Pro which made its debut onto the store on May 8th and then today received a price increase to $399.99, has today dropped in price to $0.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2124,2028,16,17],"tags":[2044,2175,3500,1883,2809,2806],"class_list":["post-19630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-app-store","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-ipod","tag-0-99","tag-3-99","tag-app-store","tag-entertainment","tag-phone-security-pro","tag-price-drops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19630"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19647,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630\/revisions\/19647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}