iPhone Dev Says Purposely ‘Terrible, Crap’ App Is Making Serious (real serious) Money
Posted by: PatrickJ / Category: iPhone NewsCopyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/2009/01/23/iphone-dev-says-purposely-terrible-crap-app-is-making-serious-real-serious-money/.
A software engineer who wrote what he calls a “terrible” and “crap” app in less time than it typically takes to eat lunch has since watched it shoot to the top of Apple’s App Store, where it’s now generating over $200 an hour despite being a free download.
We’ve talked a lot (a whole lot) lately about some bizarre and crap apps that make it to the App Store – but this story is fascinating to me because it gives us a ‘crap app’ developer’s point of view on things.
The developer in question, who goes by the nickname High Gloss, is 22 years old, and in his talk with Apple Insider he offers some great insight on his approach, his thoughts on *why* these sort of apps have so much success, and on some useful ways to look at the App Store as well.
Read on for more details on this app that is generating so much money, and for some very smart words from High Gloss …
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