iFart Mobile becomes lucrative top-ranked download for iPhone
Since the iTunes opened the App Store earlier this year, many have speculated about the revenue potential from creating applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now the developer of iFart Mobile, which has climbed the ranks to become the number one at the moment, is revealing just how much iPhone applications can bring in.
iFart Mobile creator Joel Comm has stepped forward to be extremely transparent about the number of downloads he receives and where his products are ranked. The day it reached number one, iFart was downloaded a whopping 1,327 13,274 times.
The application costs just 99 cents to download from iTunes and Apple keeps 30 percent of the sales. Even after Apple’s seemingly enormous cut the application brought in just over $9,198 in just one day.
This information counters the notion that it’s nearly impossible for a lone developer to make a decent living through the App Store. The earning potential of iPhone application developers is also likely to grow as more people purchase the device.
Joel decided to release his sales-to-rank data to help other developers to better gauge the size and potential of the iPhone application economy. Apple releases rankings on iTunes, but never hints as to how many downloads an application receives.
It’s quite interesting to see how much better a top five application can perform than the rest of the market. Even more interesting is that a developer might be able to make a living off of one hit novelty application.
Many are curious whether personal productivity or other paid applications can garner as many downloads as a simple laugh like iFart Mobile. If others follow Joel’s lead in releasing sales numbers, we may see some really interesting trends in terms of the kinds of applications that could be a viable business model for developers.
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December 24th, 2008
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December 25th, 2008
(The day it reached number one, iFart was downloaded a whopping 1,327 times.
The application costs just 99 cents to download from iTunes and Apple keeps 30 percent of the sales. Even after Apple’s seemingly enormous cut the application brought in just over $9,198 in just one day)
just go over that part again…
December 25th, 2008
download new itunes installer and watch videomanual here
December 25th, 2008
As an app developer, I hope that everyone who buys iFart is also buying 2 or 3 other apps. I hope that my two educational non-flatulence Henry & Hailey apps can get a fraction of the success that iFart has achieved.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=297430717&mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=299485206&mt=8
December 26th, 2008
Maybe if so many people didn’t piss away thousands or millions a day on such drivel, the economy wouldn’t be in the tank.
December 29th, 2008
I have decided to publish my sales numbers to show the other side of the story. I will be updating it with future daily results.
http://tingalin.com/Forums/tabid/101/forumid/1/threadid/37/scope/posts/Default.aspx