appleinsider.com - 1/22/2009
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A software engineer who wrote what he calls a "terrible" and "crap" app in less time than it typically takes to eat lunch has since watched it shoot to the top of Apple's App Store, where it's now generating over $200 an hour despite being a free download.
venturebeat.com - 1/20/2009
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venturebeat.com —
True to its word, the live streaming video
site Ustream , has released its iPhone application into...
Apple’s App Store in time for people to watch President Obama’s inauguration on their iPhones live tomorrow. The app, which I’m ...
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Just in time for the Obama inauguration, Ustream’s ...
businessweek.com - 1/19/2009
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businessweek.com —
From Peter Burrows’s story for BusinessWeek on the
App Store’s 500 millionth download, which includes quotes from...
several “mobile” developers who are switching to iPhone-only developers: Indeed, analysts think iPhone ...
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App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads
techcrunch.com - 1/22/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Students from Stanford’s Fall 1008 iPhone class CS193P
created a nice crop of apps that are now...
available or will be soon for the iPhone (see our Stanford Facebook apps posts here and here ). A list of them is here , and some of them ...
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Stanford Students Release A Cool Batch Of iPhone Apps
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Sound Grenade: An App Success Story
textually.org —
... generates a really, really annoying nauseating and headache producing high pitched sound.
... At first, Sound Grenade was completely free. Once it entered the Top 50, High said he decided to switch to an ad-supported model. Now, after processing a million ad requests in 24 hours, the app is generating upwards of $200 per hour in clickthrough revenue. In order to keep the app popular, he is looking into a few strategies.
[via Apple Insider] ...
Advice: Just Finish It!
SitePoint —
... Apple Insider has a great story today about 22-year old programmer named High Gloss (which is an awesome name if it’s real). Gloss, who has worked on more than 20 iPhone applications, recently struck gold with a free application for the phone called “Sound Grenade,” which Gloss himself concedes is “crap.” ...
iPhone Dev Says Purposely ‘Terrible, Crap’ App Is Making Serious (real serious) Money
iPhone News Feeds —
... app in less time than it typically takes to eat lunch has since watched it shoot to the top of Apple’s App Store, where it’s now generating over $200 an hour despite being a free download. We’ve talked a lot (a whole lot) lately about some bizarre and crap apps that make it to the App Store - but this story is fascinating to me because it gives us a ‘crap app’ developer’s point of view on things. The developer in question, who goes by the nickname High Gloss, is 22 years old, and in his talk with Apple Insider he offers some great insight on his approach, his thoughts on ...
iPhone App Developer Says App Store Rewards Crap
I4U News —
... users appear to like to download a bunch of crap. This guy created an app called Sound Grenade it 20 minutes. The first day he saw 50 reviews that were positive and the app went on to hit the top 10 free apps in most countries. After seeing how popular it was, the developer switched it to ad supported and now brings in about $200 per hour in revenue from the ad clicks. If I were an app developer who sees 20 minutes of work bring in $200 per hour, I would be writing crap all day. Via AppleInsider Posted on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun ...
iPhone App Store rewards the lazy
CrunchGear —
... for the App Store and gave it away free. It took him all of an hour to write - it’s just a button you press to make an annoying sound - and put it up for all and sundry. How he’s seen 100,000 downloads and is basically making $200 an hour using an in-app advertising system. ...
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