Comments on: How to be a successful iPhone developer http://47hats.com/2010/07/how-to-be-a-successful-iphone-developer/ Bob Walsh Fri, 18 May 2012 17:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bob Flanagan http://47hats.com/2010/07/how-to-be-a-successful-iphone-developer/comment-page-1/#comment-33023 Bob Flanagan Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:25:50 +0000 http://www.47hats.com/?p=2351#comment-33023 Bob, did you finally find an iPhone app for your checklists? I'm seeing if our library has the book you recommended. We're developing an iphone list app if you want to be a tester. About a month away from doing beta testing. Lots of alpha in house testing right now. Bob Bob, did you finally find an iPhone app for your checklists?

I’m seeing if our library has the book you recommended.

We’re developing an iphone list app if you want to be a tester. About a month away from doing beta testing. Lots of alpha in house testing right now.

Bob

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]]> By: Listen to 'How to be a successful iPhone developer' narrated by professionals, from '47 Hats' - Hear a Blog http://47hats.com/2010/07/how-to-be-a-successful-iphone-developer/comment-page-1/#comment-33016 Listen to 'How to be a successful iPhone developer' narrated by professionals, from '47 Hats' - Hear a Blog Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:35:56 +0000 http://www.47hats.com/?p=2351#comment-33016 [...] I came across this YouTube video of Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software talking about how his company made $1.5 million on a two-week port of a Mac OS game over in the comments of my online friend Andy Brice’s blog.Andy’s post concerned the media reality distortion field cast over the iPhone, rightly pointing out that [...] Original post [...] [...] I came across this YouTube video of Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software talking about how his company made $1.5 million on a two-week port of a Mac OS game over in the comments of my online friend Andy Brice’s blog.Andy’s post concerned the media reality distortion field cast over the iPhone, rightly pointing out that [...] Original post [...]

]]> By: Rico http://47hats.com/2010/07/how-to-be-a-successful-iphone-developer/comment-page-1/#comment-33014 Rico Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:29:52 +0000 http://www.47hats.com/?p=2351#comment-33014 It again comes down to distribution. You have to get your app out there in front of people. I won't even go as far as saying the market is highly competitive. You might find a niche, but there are thousands of apps all around that. Spreading the word is hard too. I tried pitching an app to dozens of review sites. They are backlogged weeks if not months. Building apps for fun and see if they take off, absolutely. Developing iPhone apps to build a predictable and sustainable business, not so much. It again comes down to distribution. You have to get your app out there in front of people. I won’t even go as far as saying the market is highly competitive. You might find a niche, but there are thousands of apps all around that. Spreading the word is hard too. I tried pitching an app to dozens of review sites. They are backlogged weeks if not months.

Building apps for fun and see if they take off, absolutely. Developing iPhone apps to build a predictable and sustainable business, not so much.

]]> By: Andy Brice http://47hats.com/2010/07/how-to-be-a-successful-iphone-developer/comment-page-1/#comment-33004 Andy Brice Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:23:08 +0000 http://www.47hats.com/?p=2351#comment-33004 >his company made $1.5 million on a two-week port of a Mac OS game Yes, but that was on the back of years spent writing games for the Mac. Also he acknowledges that: -a lot of the success was due to their game being pushed heavily by Apple -you need to be in the top 100 apps to make decent sales and a lot of that is down to luck (having the right app at the right time) It is interesting that their sales are so much higher on iPhone than Mac. I wonder how much of that is down to the promotion of the iPhone version by Apple. >his company made $1.5 million on a two-week port of a Mac OS game

Yes, but that was on the back of years spent writing games for the Mac. Also he acknowledges that:
-a lot of the success was due to their game being pushed heavily by Apple
-you need to be in the top 100 apps to make decent sales and a lot of that is down to luck (having the right app at the right time)

It is interesting that their sales are so much higher on iPhone than Mac. I wonder how much of that is down to the promotion of the iPhone version by Apple.

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