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By: FutureTap Taps TapTapTap’s “Where To” iPhone Application | Q u a r a r a

FutureTap Taps TapTapTap’s “Where To” iPhone Application | Q u a r a r a — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:16:49 +0000

[...] app is on sale for $2.99 USD. Last August, tap tap tap shared sales figures with TechCrunch, which showed that they netted just over $50,000 in revenue in their first month on [...]

By: FutureTap Taps TapTapTap’s “Where To” iPhone Application

FutureTap Taps TapTapTap’s “Where To” iPhone Application — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:43:25 +0000

[...] app is on sale for $2.99 USD. Last August, tap tap tap shared sales figures with TechCrunch, which showed that they netted just over $50,000 in revenue in their first month on [...]

By: don quoite

don quoite — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:55:06 +0000

“The real money in the App Store may well lie in monetizing these free applications, be it through integrated advertising or downloadable content”

lol you mean like all the money facebook.com is generating on their free site?

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:26:31 +0000

Marc, if you think you are so smart and other people are idiots, why not to demonstrate it by actually creating some commercially successful app? You can aim it at “idiots” if you want to.

By: WIRELESS « Daily Marauder

WIRELESS « Daily Marauder — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:44:06 +0000

[...] GPS interface to the iPhone with location-based services, and Tipulator, a simple tip calculator. (http://www.tech...s-sales-figures [...]

By: Daily Dose #3 | Floyd's Thoughts...

Daily Dose #3 | Floyd's Thoughts... — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:14:48 +0000

[...] AppStore Developer TapTapTap Publishes Sales Figures Interesting stats from TapTapTap – Makes me think I should building IPhone apps [...]

By: Urban Dictionary

Urban Dictionary — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:33:02 +0000

“Tipulator isn’t defined yet.”

Now what?

By: modemlooper

modemlooper — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:30:26 +0000

for real! i hope apple wises up and does away with these crap apps. they should only allow quality apps. it really makes the iphone come off like an off brand pc company. i deleted all the free apps after a few days as they are really useless junk.

By: modemlooper

modemlooper — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:26:45 +0000

just think if this dev prived it at 4.99 they would have made alot more.

By: JofArnold

JofArnold — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:19:14 +0000

“The real money in the App Store may well lie in monetizing these free applications, be it through integrated advertising or downloadable content”

Real money? I guess as opposed to the fake money they are getting now. To put this in context, they have MADE more in one month than many of the startups on TC.com are funded in their first year.

By: Steve Young

Steve Young — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:20:59 +0000

Not too shabby for sales numbers for the first month… that’s 600,000 dollars in revenue for the year, if they were to receive the same amount of purchases for the rest of the year. The interesting thing will be to see how many more iphones are purchased monthly, after the first month of sales, and also how many apps will be purchased by these new iphone users. Remember, you only have to purchase the app once. Its not a subscription service… look here.. http://www.John....htm?s=hiac2008

By: Jin

Jin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:11:10 +0000

“The real money in the App Store may well lie in monetizing these free applications, be it through integrated advertising or downloadable content (though it remains to be seen what restrictions Apple will place on this kind of strategy).”

This is already being done. Twitterrific is free with ads or pay and ad free. Apple so far has no problems.

By: Jin

Jin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:07:24 +0000

Nigel – For verizon those numbers are worst if you are a small developer. IF you can get you work through you get to keep 35% or less. So far the App Store has been straight across the board with it’s fees.

By: Kebie

Kebie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:52:47 +0000

Didn’t you follow the news? we already had the I AM RICH application that just displayed a graphic and cost $999.99, 8 people bought it.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:19:28 +0000

If there are 3,168 idiots who need a tip calculator and are willing to pay a dollar for it, I am sure that this platform will be able to rope in all kinds of idiots with all kinds of other nonsensical apps.

As a business teacher once said to me: “Every day, millions of idiots wake up, if you can just make $0.99 from 3,168 of them in a month, you can become rich”. OK, I kind of adopted his saying a little, but you get the point!

My new app idea: The Bank Account Decimator – only $24.99. Purpose: To teach you a lesson. Support your education and buy this splendid product!

By: Q dub

Q dub — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:59:58 +0000

Does anyone remember the days of high quality shareware? When individual authors made a living making a single “killer app” for a niche and charging $10-30 for it?

I hope those days come back!

By: ACEdge

ACEdge — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:42:58 +0000

Isn’t the real question “how much did it cost to develop?”. Then we’d see ROI relative to other channels or opportunities to promote.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:52:44 +0000

I agree. Lets see what happens within the next year; Will new, fresh apps succeed, or will only the best of the best flourish and the rest fail?

By: tester

tester — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:14:11 +0000

test post

By: Ebidnow

Ebidnow — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:20:52 +0000

well that pretty much true right there

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:13:57 +0000

Whores get 0% Pimp gets 100% you need to watch your Hughes brother documentaries.

At least they provide the developer a brainless distribution system. If you look at what it takes to get a BREW cell phone game out in the industry, you will be giving away over 50% most likely to a distributor who sells to the cell phone companies, who both take cuts.

Some people just develop and apple provided an excellent system really for single or small developer teams of 2 or 3 people to make some serious money, and not need to go through a lot of business stuff they don’t want to be concerned with.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:08:58 +0000

But they have basically double monetized their whereto application. They could feature certain chains higher then others if they paid, or offer coupon services with the whereto’s.

I don’t get why you would want to go through all the work of offering free+ ad services when you don’t have too. Most programmers don’t know crap about advertising, and they don’t need to hire someone to do it for them. Charging someone $2.99 is simple money in. Seriously, keep it simple.

I guess you want the 50,000,000 downloads for your app with no monitization though, and then sell the app for some inflated value to some investor, but that still isn’t a good business.

By: Otilia @ Ad Ops Online

Otilia @ Ad Ops Online — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:59:47 +0000

The Tipulator… that’s a very very unfortunate name in some languages, a trip to the urban dictionary will explain it
Other than that, am I the only one thinking of Morty Seinfeld’s ‘tip calculator’ here?

By: Jeroen S.

Jeroen S. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:51:51 +0000

You should change your name to iPhoneCrunch

By: Derrick

Derrick — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:34:34 +0000

This is a good start I guess. It shows that iPhone customers are willing to buy apps and developers can start breaking even soon.