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EP1
13-02-2009, 09:30 AM
Hi
Not sure if this is the right place to post but it's a good indication of the rewards indie developers can reap.

Coder's Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On (http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/shoot-is-iphone.html)


Apple's iPhone application store is as crowded as Beyonce concert, with more than 20,000 apps available. But one independent developer still managed to rake in $600,000 in a single month with a single iPhone game.

Ethan Nicholas, developer of a tank artillery game called iShoot, told Wired.com he quit his job the day his app rose to No. 1 in the App Store, earning him $37,000 in a single day.

"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 said in a phone interview. "If it weren't for taxes I would be a millionaire right now."

Until recently, there has been no realistic way for individual programmers to make serious money on their own. Most of the software market is dominated by big companies, and the traditional distribution method for independent developers -- shareware -- isn't conducive to striking it rich. By contrast, Apple's iTunes App Store provides a platform for marketing, selling and distributing software; all a developer needs to provide is a good idea and some working code.

Nicholas' success story proves that there's still plenty of potential to strike it rich in Apple's seven-month-old App Store. In September, iPhone developer Steve Demeter said he made $250,000 in just two months with his puzzle game Trism. But as the ........

Cyberninja
14-02-2009, 05:03 AM
I came across this program, while doing some searching. It might be an option for aspiring iPhone developers: http://www.adventuremaker.com/overview.htm

Kensei
14-02-2009, 02:21 PM
OMG

::looks at Cyberninja's link::

OMG x2!!!

FuzzYspo0N
14-02-2009, 09:56 PM
theres TONS of cool stuff for iphone development... but if you buy the developer connection certificates you best own a device and be willing to submit or its a HUGE waste of time :P needing a mac is one major downside of it too . but im enjoying iphone development for the large part.\

Also, for an AWESOME crowd of already published developers they all seem to hang out on freenode, in the iphonedev channel. countless times iv gotten pure gold help there, worth checking it out.