No one is going to retire by selling apps just to the Australian App store, or any non-US store. Graham of OzWeather did it for love not money :-)
I see 3 models for making good money from iPhone applications, in order. - Paid apps for worldwide or US distribution - you have to have a 'hit' to make money. - Brand sponsored apps - you need a partner like Pepsi, Target, Audi etc. - Advertising supported apps - you need eyeballs, lots of them, to make $500 USD per day from an app with average mobile CPC rate of $0.25, and a click through rate of 1% you need 200,000 ad impressions per day - assuming a click through results in a purchase. Very few iphone apps are that popular. I do agree that its too hit based at the moment, its very hard to bring a price back up when your competition is at 99c. One of the big app developers did some testing and observed a 60% drop in sales each time they moved up a pricing tier. 99c -> 1.99c etc. Keith --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" 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/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
