iFart app making almost $10,000/day
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... iFart has hit the top paid app spot and has recieved over 13,000 purchases on Dec. 22nd. according to MR. That means $9200 went directly into developer ...
iPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day
VentureBeat —
... for the app each day since it launched. The $0.99 app has been in the top 100 paid apps everyday since its launch, and has seen great growth. In fact, yesterday it hit the number one overall position with over 13,000 downloads. MacRumors ran the numbers, factoring out the 30 percent cut Apple takes from each sale, and determined that yesterday alone, iFart Mobile made $9,198. ...
It Must Be Christmas Mood or I Don’t Get the Fart App Making $10k a Day
Profy —
... I somehow dislike counting money other people make but in some cases it is just impossible to resist with today’s calculation being the money generated by the most popular application in the Apple App Store: almost $10,000 a day. Of course it must be a very appealing market if a developer knows it is possible to earn this much off one single application that took practically nothing to build. ...
Farts Are Where It’s At
Mashable! —
... Farts. Farts, folks, is where it’s at. MacRumors reveals that the top selling spot on iPhone App store for the 22nd of December, belongs to iFart Mobile, one of the many popular fart applications (I can’t believe I put those two words together). iFart’s rise to fame in the last couple of days, looks like this: ...
Linkpost | 12.24.2008
TechBlog —
... - Redesigned, or just refreshed specs? • iPhone App Store Sales for #1 Spot Revealed - Author of the iFart app shows his numbers, and at one point he made almost $10,000 in a day. • ...
A plague of iPhone flatulence
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... for immediate amusement or delayed gratification — pungent sounds with names like Jack the Ripper, Howard the Duck and The Sick Dog.
The developer of this noisome program, InfoMedia, has atoned for its sins by publicly releasing its sales figures. The chart makes for interesting reading, as it documents the snowball effect (to mix a metaphor) of rising high enough in Apple’s Top Paid App list to get the attention of the broad app-buying public.
Here, via MacRumors, is the record of InfoMedia’s rise to the top:
12/14 - 841 units - #76 ...
Las flatulencias del iPhone generan super ganancias
Celularis —
... se podría confirmar la teoría de la elasticidad precio demanda, pues podrían subir el precio, ganando más plata y ver como responde el mercado de descargas, todo con mediciones muy cortitas de hasta 6-12 horas.
Seguro que, luego de esta historia de éxito y dinero, muchos desarrolladores están pensando en que aplicación poner en la tienda, incluso de flatulencias y gases!
Y a ti cuál se te ocurre?
Vía VentureBeat y MacRumors ...
You disappoint me, America: $10,000 worth of iPhone farting apps sold (so far)
CrunchGear —
... MacRumors even went to the trouble of crunching the numbers. With around 13,000 downloads, and factoring in Apple’s 30 percent cut, iFart Mobile has made $9,198. ...
Flatulence app for iPhone: The smell of sweet success
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... Based on these figures, MacRumors calculated that even after Apple's cut of 30%, the 99-cent app generated about $9,200 the day it hit No. 1. ...
The Not-So-Sweet Smell of Success: iPhone Fart Apps A Financial "Wind"-fall
iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone —
... for the app each day since it launched. The $0.99 app has been in the
top 100 paid apps every day since its launch, and has seen great
growth. In fact, yesterday it hit the number one overall position with over 13,000 downloads. MacRumors ran the numbers,
factoring out the 30 percent cut Apple takes from each sale, and
determined that, yesterday alone, iFart Mobile made its developers
$9,198. ...

