My app currently makes on average 5 to 10 dollars a day. When I do updates to it, it jumps up higher than that for a few days. I've made probably around $600 dollars or such so far over the life of the app, which was first released in Aprilish timeframe. So I think it's doing pretty good yet (not as good as I would have liked of course but still good). I hope when more phones come out the sales will jump up even more. Along with that I have some more features I plan on putting into the app as well, which should boost sales again.
I think most people are afraid to discuss money because the market is new and they don't want to give away any "secrets", etc. -niko On Jun 23, 9:11 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Funky Expenses is shipped as in ad-support and pay-for ad free versions, both > receive the same releases at the same time. > > The current stats are 1976 active installs of the ad-supported version, 1 > install of the pay-for version. > > Definitely seems like respond better to googlish model of free ad-supported > apps. > > Al. > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed > Sent: 23 June 2009 12:38 > To: Android Discuss > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: "Apple iPhone Developers Mostly Don't Make > Much Money" > > I agree. The business model needs to match customer expectations. A a > google customer I expect applications that deliver the user experience > of, say, Google Maps, to be free. Why would I expect anything less? > In business there is the concept of a price umbrella, where major > players who define a market establish the de-facto rules for how it > operates. When choosing to participate in a market, companies look at > how the market is structured and choose to go into markets that are > ordered and have a market leader setting a price umbrella that smaller > players can live under without taking a bath... > > How much does Google charge for it's ads? Can you deliver a better > return for advertisers at a lower cost by developing a product that is > more market specific than google? > > There are a few places where that can happen with hobby enabling apps > for young people. AT&T has business discount rate plans on the iPhone > that erode T-Mobile's rate plan price advantage, for those who have > access to them... > > On Jun 20, 12:55 pm, Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Market is still young and the whole Android system is more > > OpenSource than Appel, so your business model should be more > > OpenSource oriented (Free to use pai for service)! > > > On 16 jun, 22:07, Aaron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > To this day, I still believe it's the customers. They are much > > > cheaper, complaining constantly about having to pay anything for an > > > application and rating poorly consequently. > > > > In addition, there are waay too many free applications due to the free > > > nature of the Market initially that no one is willing to pay for a > > > quality app. > > > > Lastly as more phones come out at the end of this year, the sales > > > should double or quadruple. It's hard to make a mark on the iphone > > > due to the large amount of applications available. It's easier to > > > make a name on Android and wait for the sales to increase over time. > > > I will call Android development more of an investment. > > > > On Jun 16, 9:57 am, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Of course there's an engineering effort on the side of carriers and > > > > manufacturers to get them going with Android. And there's, for lack of > > > > a better term, a cottage industry all the way down to eBay making c25 > > > > on extra pics for auctions of devices that run Android. My point here > > > > is that *app* users are going through the Market that has the big name > > > > behind it, while a seeingly increasing number of devs are looking > > > > around, wondering if they're on the right bus here. > > > > > On Jun 16, 6:04 am, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > You have a disturbingly narrow view of the Android ecosystem. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
