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February 3rd, 2012 | 
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Some people suggest that making money in the App Store isn’t possible. I remember a figure released last year that said only 1% of developers make more than $1000 per year selling iPhone apps. That may be true, but the difference between the apps that sell in the 1% and everyone else’s apps is very minimal.
In Mike’s App Dev Secrets course, he shows you how to be part of the 1%, from start to finish, no loose ends. I highly suggest checking out App Dev Secrets so that you too can capitalize on the massive market that is the App Store.
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This infographic is from July 2011, but I imagine it’s still quite relevant. According to Distmo, in their July 2011 report, 72% of mobile app revenue (in the iPhone store) comes from in-app purchases. Do you think this still holds water today?
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So you have your million dollar iPad App idea. What now? How best to get your thoughts organized?
Personally, I’m a huge fan of the paper and pencil method for getting a high level wireframe together for any application – web, desktop or otherwise. A wireframe is more or less a mock-up of the UI. Doing a once through on paper is simple, quick and can help you get your thoughts together and written down.
Sometimes I use grid paper. Other times a napkin. For iPad development, I created this seriously simple template that I can print and use. Perfect for getting my app workflow and UI design organized.
The template is simple, but effective and available for FREE right here:
When Apple launched the iPhone and iPod Touch App Store, apps suddenly absolutely took off. Within months there were more gimmicky type apps that were pulling some serious cash. These simple apps – farting apps, joke apps, simple logging apps – they all had something in common. They were quick to develop, very straight forward, could probably have been developed in a number of days (or weeks at most) and appealed to the masses because of their novelty.
The iPad is going to be no different. If you’re on the fence about developing something for the iPad, now is the time to jump in, head first and get your novelty idea out there. Believe it when I say that those novelty apps are going to go like hotcakes when the iPad first comes out – especially those that are made for the iPad (versus those that are made for the iPhone and would then have lower resolution and wouldn’t use the new iPad features).
But if you’re not a developer, there is still hope. Appcelerator, the company behind the Titanium mobile app development suite has announced support for the iPad. The news release can be found here, but a few quotes:
Appcelerator will begin allowing developers to create iPad applications in an upcoming Titanium beta release in February. Developers can download Titanium today from www.appcelerator.com.
In demonstrating its support for the new iPad, Appcelerator said that it had successfully tested Titanium’s comprehensive test suite application “Kitchen Sink” on the iPad. In a statement via Twitter on Wednesday, Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, tweeted “Apple iPad simulator running Appcelerator Titanium Kitchen Sink 0.9
With just some html and javascript knowledge, you can be off to the races with iPhone development and, fingers crossed, soon iPad development and you can get your ideas out there into the app store as soon as possible.
