Comments on: 1B Apps Served, One Disappointing Revenue Total for Apple

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:02:21 +0000

I build Paid App and submitted to AppStore , my app was around 3.99$, I got few downloads, I passed my app to 1.99$, I got the same number of downloads, I switched my app to FREE version with mobile ads finally i got 3 times the 1st revenue

if someone is looking to make money with his app, the best way is to provide it to the EndUser for FREE with mobile ads

iPhone Advertising SDK for publisher / developer : http://www.aditic.com/how-to-make-money-with-iphone-app/

By: Time for Service Providers to take apps seriously - Martin Creaner's Blog - TM Forum Online Community

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:31:45 +0000

[...] do much for the economic argument under-pinning all the network and device investment. This reference is a couple of months old but it estimates that the total revenue from the first billion downloads [...]

By: Eric Fader

Eric Fader — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:21:55 +0000

This number will only grow stronger as industried emerge from the iPhone perimeter such as MEDL Mobile
http://www.trendslate.com/2009/09/13/medl-mobile-gains-traction-as-a-los-angeles-based-iphone-applicaction-incubator/

By: TrendSlate | » Medl Mobile Gains Traction as a Los Angeles Based iPhone Applicaction Incubator

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:23:48 +0000

[...] is leveraging the potential of the iPhone phenomena which has supported the downloading of over one-billion applications earlier this [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:39:50 +0000

I am a developer that has a couple of apps on the app store and I pay $99 per year to apple to be able to submit apps to the iphone. With all the developers out there I am sure this covers the upkeep of the appstore.

-Tom

By: Apple Boasts 1.5B App Store Downloads in First Year

Apple Boasts 1.5B App Store Downloads in First Year — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:38:33 +0000

[...] Apple likes numbers, and shoving said numbers in our faces every time they reach a milestone of any kind. To celebrate the App Store’s first birthday, the company’s got a suitably huge figure to brandish: 1.5 billion. That one, five and eight zeroes indicates the number of iPhone apps downloaded within the store’s inaugural year. It’s an impressive number on its own, but it becomes even more impressive when you recall that it was only a little over two months ago that Apple hit the 1 billion-mark. [...]

By: Apple Boasts 1.5B App Store Downloads in First Year

Apple Boasts 1.5B App Store Downloads in First Year — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:42:14 +0000

[...] Apple likes numbers, and shoving said numbers in our faces every time they reach a milestone of any kind. To celebrate the App Store’s first birthday, they’ve got a suitably huge figure to brandish: 1.5 billion. That one, five and eight zeroes indicates the number of iPhone apps downloaded within the store’s inaugural year. It’s an impressive number on its own, but it becomes even more impressive when you recall that it was only a little over two months ago that Apple hit the 1 billion mark. [...]

By: Ubisoft Exec Thinks Apple Has Gaming Platform in Mind

Ubisoft Exec Thinks Apple Has Gaming Platform in Mind — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:02:03 +0000

[...] of the revenue coming from game sales. With the iPhone and iPod touch, at least, Apple seems to be depending on the reverse formula, in that they don’t make much money from software, and instead use it as incentive for [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:11:32 +0000

Excellent article on this by MG Siegler: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/14/about-those-iphone-app-store-numbers/

By: dave W

dave W — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:53:24 +0000

Better than Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division LOSING 31 million last quarter!

last quarter (reported in April 09) Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division which includes download services like Xbox Live

PLUS Zune, all MS devices like keyboards mice joysticks etc, all the Games studios, Windows Mobile and all Xbox hardware…

LOST 31 million!!!

Blog after blog dissing App Store revenues this morning but comparing to MS E&D Apple’s less than one year old App Store suddenly doesn’t look so bad, in fact it looks stella!

Msft E&D is roughly equal to the App Store, iTunes, iPod and iPhone, Apple TV and all Apple keyboards etc

looks like fresh new little App Store outperforming the whole dam MS division!