App Store Sales Amaze, Dazzle
By Jason Michael Perry • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Headlines, iPhoneEarly signs have been extremely positive with one developer reporting an average of $1700 a day in sales over the last 3 days. The Crossword Puzzle app in question managed to become an Apple Staff Pick and sells for only $5.99.
Even Apple upstart Tapulous announced that their new FREE application Tap Tap Revenge will reach one million downloads by this weekend, giving them a 20% penetration rate into the Apple touch screen device market (iPhone and iPod Touch).
More amazing is Pangea’s Engimo which is rumored to have pulled in $1.2 million in the opening weekend of the iPhone 3G alone. The application, featured at WWDC has garnered impressive reviews and sales for $9.99 from the AppStore. That figure suggest sales of around 121,000 over 3 days or 40,000 downloads a day (Apple sold 400,000 iPhones in the United States during the opening weekend and reportedly than 1 million worldwide).
As you may know Apple announced over 10 million downloads (paid and free) from the AppStore in just the first weekend. While a 30% fee for listing is still a hefty chunk to fork over to Apple, the AppStore’s visibility to all IPhone and iPod Touch owners does indeed appear to be huge for small developers looking to reach this market.
Appleinsider is quick to announce that these trends are not universal. Just like any sales venue a select few applications have quickly risen to the top showing impressive numbers of downloads and sales. However, less popular apps are reporting that downloads have been small or nil.
My assumption is that quality apps that fill a true void have potential in the market, but many users do not feel the need for 8 different iPhone flash lights, even if their free.
All that said, it is time for all of us to pick up Xcode, take Fig Leaf’s upcoming iPhone class, and get some new and compeling products to the AppStore.
I’ll keep you posted as my own development projects get closer to completion!
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