Lone iPhone dev earns $600k per month

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Lone iPhone dev earns $600k per month

Lone iPhone dev earns $600k per month

iPhone Month: Proving that it is possible for a lone developer to make a decent living out of the Apple App Store, the creator of popular game iShoot has revealed that the success of his title earned him $600,000 in a single month.

Speaking to Wired, Ethan Nicholas explained that he quit his day job after iShoot earned him $37,000 on the day it rose to number one in the App Store charts.

“I'm not going to be a millionaire in the next month, but I'd be shocked if it didn't happen at the end of the year,” he stated. “If it weren't for taxes I would be a millionaire right now.”

iShoot initially did little upon its arrival on the App Store in October. However, once Nicholas coded a free demo version, which included an ad for the full $3 version of the game, users subsequently went on to download the title 2.4m times.

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Chris K.

Feb 18th 2009 | 00:14

Yes, we all know it's possible to win the iphone lottery. What we need to do is fix the inherit problems with istore and improve the across the board chances of making some money. Raise the general quality level and so on.

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