While this RS Online might be a successful cash cow business model for Apple, how does business fare for the app developer? Pretty good, it turns out.
Joel Comm's success story has become a typical case of successful app development among app developers. He developed an iPhone app named iFart that is well-known to all iPhone users. The sales volumes for this little app beat its competitors with no difficulty, with sales of 113,885 downloads during a two-week period in December three years ago.
113,885 download during a two-week period is a big incentive especially when you stand on a verge of unemployment. What if you are a poor developer, what are you going to do? Develop your own app?
Develop iPhone apps is not the business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. It also needs your financial and time investment. You will need an Intel-based Mac computer with Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard for developing your app, as well as a couple of test devices (preferably both an iPhone and an iPod Touch). Plus, you must be a registered member of the Apple iPhone Developer Program, which costs $99 for the basic edition.
The usual proverb is "Rome wasn't built in a day." Even the simplest iPhone app will take a considerable amount of time to develop. Yes, you could blow a simple app out your posterior in about two weeks' time, but a true sales contender could take a couple of months for development, testing, and distribution.
Let us take a hypothetical case: you don't have sufficient fund and have to cut down expense to lower cost. You could be a rogue developer and rely solely on the iPhone SDK iPhone Simulator for your app testing.
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