Vincent Ferrari
02-17-2009, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/shoot-is-iphone.html' target='_blank'>http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/...-is-iphone.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Apple's iPhone application store is as crowded as a 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.""</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//at/auto/1234875958.usr18053.png" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>Money can be made in the App Store. Bottom line. I know that it's all in vogue today to rail against the evil app store and how hard it is to make money there, and I know lots of developers who can't sell their apps for $60 and survive are all upset, but the reality is money is there to be made.</p>