For a Brief Shining Moment, a Humble Flashlight App was #4 in the iPhone Paid Apps List: Here's Why

If you were paying attention to techie tweets yesterday, you might have noticed an amusing thing taking place in Apple’s iTunes iPhone Top Paid apps list. A humble 99 cent flashlight app bounded out of nowhere to the #4 spot. Why in the world, you might ask, would (1) anyone pay 99 cents for a flashlight app. And, (2) how it it be that enough people bought it to boost it into the top 10 Paid Apps list? The answer, it turns out, was that this flashlight app had a small highly desirable and undocumented talent.