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By: Chris StevenseBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Turn your app ideas into a money-making goldmine
More than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple's AppStore and with the right combination of original ideas, great features, solid coding, unique designs, and savvy marketing, your apps could be a part of that staggering number. This book shows you how to turn your ideas into profit-making success stories. Citing a fascinating array of real-world examples, this useful book invites you to meet the rich and famous of the app development world. You'll look behind the scenes of these successful visionaries to learn their secrets first hand and discover how these "bedroom coders" became overnight millionaires. Serves as a must-have introduction to the fascinating, cutting-edge world of app design, where innovation reaps reward Shows you how to structure your app development process based on the Appillionaires who made their fortune Explores what works and what doesn't with regards to getting your app featured and enticing buyers Looks at successful apps such as Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Fruit Ninja, and many others that have taken the app world by storm
If you were unaware of the potential to make money from selling your apps, then app-arently, you really need this book!
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| Title of Computers eBook: Appillionaires | |
| Release Date: 09-13-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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Appillionaires
Chapter One
INTRODUCTION
THEY ARE THE Appillionaires: Smart, ambitious dreamers in bedrooms and garages across the world, plotting the future of mobile apps. Their tools are inexpensive — a MacBook Pro and an iPhone — but overnight the Appillionaires can amass a fortune from selling software on the iTunes App Store. They lead a revival of the hobbyist programmer. Not since the days of the Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 has indie software been sold by such tiny teams of programmers to such massive numbers of consumers.
The money flows to the Appillionaires even as they sleep. While they dream their Angry Bird-dreams, invisible electronic transfers push money into the Appillionaires' bank accounts from App Stores in over 80 different countries. As much as $250 million gets spent at the App Store in a single month. Over 10 billion apps have been sold on the store to date and it's estimated that Apple has signed up at least 79,000 software publishers to the iOS (iPhone and iPad operating system) club.
What's remarkable is that Apple's credibility was bolstered so much by the success of the iPod and iPhone that the rise of the iPhone app was widely predicted. Even before the launch of the App Store back in 2008, Wired magazine speculated, "iPhone software development may spark a software gold rush not seen since the heyday of PC-platform development in the 1990s."
THERE'S GOLD IN THEM HILLS
It's this label "gold rush" that has been most often applied to the App Store. The potential for success, and risk of failure, is so great that in many ways the A
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