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A Christmas iFart explosion: Nearly 40,000 downloads and $30,000 net
VentureBeat — ... But the real gem is of course Christmas Day. As Comm says in his blog post, “But I had a hunch that Christmas Eve and Christmas Day would be higher. How much higher was anyone’s guess. All I knew was that a lot of people would be getting iPhones and iPod Touch MP3 players on Christmas Day.” Indeed. ...

QOTD
Digital Daily — ... early for us. On 12/24, my jaw hit the floor when I checked my stats. We sold 19520 units, providing $13364 in net income after Apple takes their cut. I now knew that Christmas Day would be bigger than I would have imagined. I made sure I was sitting down before I checked my day-after-Christmas stats. It was a good thing. On Christmas Day, 38,927 people purchased iFart Mobile. Thirty-eight thousand nine-hundred and twenty seven. Wow. Thats $27,249 net. Again I say, wow. – iFart developer Joel Comm reveals his App Store holiday sales-to-rank data. ...

Apple: iPhone Authors Report Sales Surge on Christmas
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... of their programs on Christmas day last week. To take just one example, the author of the current top-selling application for the iPhone, iFart (yes, it’s a version of the classic fart-machine sound effects box for the iPhone) reports on his blog that sales of the program, which costs 99 cents, rose on Christmas day to 38,927 from 19,520 units the day before. Numerous other authors are quoted on blog posts on sites such as ...

How To Get Rich Selling iPhone Apps: Start Recording Your Farts (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Joel has updated his iFart sales chart, including Christmas sales. He says sales grew 50% on Dec. 24 to 19,520 units, and doubled again on Dec. 25 to 38,927 units. ...

Developer Sells 39K Copies iFart Mobile on Christmas Day
iPodObserver — Developer Joel Comm announced over the weekend that he sold some 38,927 copies of iFart Mobile on Christmas Day . Sales of the sound effect and prank application released through InfoMedia Inc. began growing by leaps and bounds in the days leading up to Christmas, but as boys, girls, and adults alike opened up their iPod touches and iPhones, those sales increased by threefold on Christmas Day itself. ...

Apple Relaxes, iFart Blasts Through
WebProNews Feed — ... iPhone app a ripping success No matter what your mother says, farts will forever be funny. And for Joel Comm , they may forever be profitable now that Apple decided his app wasn t too crass for the iPhone public. iFart Mobile is currently the number one iPhone/iPod Touch application, pulling in a dollar a pop. Call it the new Whoopie Cushion. Recently released from Apple banishment, iFart wafted up to ...

iFart Mobile Finds The Sweet Smell of Success
iPhone Savior — ... "With Wal-Mart entering into the iPhone marketplace, the App Store will have more customers than ever before, said Joel Comm, "This is getting interesting." Source: JoelComm.com ...

iPhone App Development - It’s the New “Plastics”
Cult of Mac — ... , the current #1 paid application on Apple’s iTunes AppStore, netted its creators $40,000 in two days at Christmas, according to a blog post by Joel Comm, the application’s lead developer. ...

Apple relaxing iPhone rules, developers winning big
MacBytes.com — ... a lot of fun for developers, but very much in the classic Apple "control" mould. Recently, though, it seems as though things have changed at Apple, or at least the rules have been relaxed. Rude applications have passed through without comment where previously developers had complained that they were blocked. Most famously, developer Joel Comm, behind (pun not intended) the rather obviously named iFart application -- estimates he made more than US$27,000 in a single day from the application . That's a lot of gas, and, of course with Apple's 30% App store cut, they're also ...

Apple relaxing iPhone rules, developers winning big
MacBytes.com — ... a lot of fun for developers, but very much in the classic Apple "control" mould. Recently, though, it seems as though things have changed at Apple, or at least the rules have been relaxed. Rude applications have passed through without comment where previously developers had complained that they were blocked. Most famously, developer Joel Comm, behind (pun not intended) the rather obviously named iFart application -- estimates he made more than US$27,000 in a single day from the application . That's a lot of gas, and, of course with Apple's 30% App store cut, they're also ...