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As a 13 year old, I put my first application on the store in October 2009, and all it does is play those mosquito ringtone sounds, and I still make ~$300-400 a month. It always manages to maintain the top 50 Entertainment in some random country.

EDIT: Top 50 Entertainment for iPad, Top 100 for Entertainment for iPhone. I would recommend making your app universal, even if it is just to make the app fill the screen. There is a much smaller pool of silly apps for iPad ;)



The average app makes about $500 over its entire lifetime, so you should be pretty pleased with this.


I didn't know this. Hrmm. Where do you find data on that sort of thing?


Here's an article from last year with some numbers: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-an...


What exactly is the 'lifetime' on an iphone app?


I'm pleased, too: my app is destined to be immortal!


You play the whole young programmer angle often. Good luck with future development, though.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stealth-tones/id334666404?mt=...


I actually am aware of this, it is very true, and have been moving more away from it as I am getting older. I am in the (well, constant) process of updating my online identity. For example, my website is shit, haven't got to that yet.


I think it's a good angle.


Am I the only one who finds this disturbing?


I completely share your opinion.




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