James Vincent writing for The Verge:

That’s what the iBeer app represented to a generation of early iPhone users, and that, I’m afraid, is very much what’s missing in today’s world of “non-funkable tokens” and “idle orangutans.” Not only was the app a lighthearted parlor trick that brought smiles to the faces of millions, but it was an industrial juggernaut, earning its creator — a struggling 37-year-old magician by the name of Steve Sheraton — up to $20,000 a day. And okay, sure, you might be one of those raking in millions from cryptographical currencies at the expense of others’ financial negligence, but where’s the joy in that? Where’s the magic?

Sheraton revealed these earnings in a recent interview with Mel Magazine (which we spotted via the good folks at iMore) — and it’s a perfect slice of early smartphone history. Sheraton’s tale harks back to a simpler, more innocent time, when one could entertain a crowd of thousands by simply pretending to drink beer from a phone.

I will take a beer drinking app or something more whimsical and fun over another crypto coin or NFT any day.