Jobs: $30M App Store Sales in first month.

The App Store is no-longer a hobby for Apple.

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$1 million a day in applications for a total of $30 million in sales over the first month.

In a recent interview with Steve Jobs himself, The Wall Street Journal reports 60 million applications have been delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users, within the first month.

I recently equated the App Store’s total worth, as a business for Apple, and it’s on track to hit that target.

Another interesting tidbit, is Jobs confirmed that Apple indeed had the ability and back-end technology to remote disable an application from an iPhone or iPod touch running the 2.0 firmware. Of course he stated;

“Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.”

Other numbers to take note of are that of Sega’s Super Monkey Ball, and Epocates medical suite. Within the first 20 days, Sega had sold over 300,000 copies of Super monkey Ball ($9.99). This made Sega $2 million in net revenue. Similarly, Eporcates saw users download 125,000 copies of it’s medical suite for iPhone.

Also noted was the recent pulling of ‘I Am Rich’. Apple described the action of removing the application from the App Store as a “judgement call”.

R-Fly

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Armin Heinrich: The ‘I Am Rich’ Walkthrough – [Updated].

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[Update] – 10.08.08

It appears, the website which was supposedly managed by Armin Heinrich himself to promote ‘I Am Rich’, has ensured peace of mind of the customers who purchased the application, accidentally (through ‘one-click’), by stating those customers will be fully refunded, soon – Good move Armin, good move.

Original Article:

Well, looks like someone has cracked Apple’s DRM on Heinrich’s pulled application, I am Rich.
Here is a full walk-through of the $999.99 application.

Now you can all see, just what you would of got for your money …
… And I tell you, it’s not pretty.

Unfortunately, due to legal restrictions, I am not allowed to link you to this YouTube video. The reason being is that the video’s description contains a link to a file-sharing site of which you can obtain this application for free, DRM-free.

R-Fly

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Armin Heinrich – ‘I Am Rich’ Pulled From the App Store. – [Briefly]

This review was published on the mobile App Store.

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[Update] – 08.08.08

Six people in the U.S., one from Germany and one from France bought the $999.99 application.

Original Article:

I updated the original article with this information, but now I have a bit more. It seems one reason the application may have been pulled, is due to an app store review (above).

The words of a no-doubt anxious buyer, having Apple await to deduct the $999.99 owed from his/her account, for … well,
an application which basically has no purpose.

For the time the application was on the App Store, Heinrich surprisingly moved 8 copies, reeling him $5600 in net revenue.

The application has since been pulled from the store with no word from Apple or Armin Heinrich (the developer).

Did Apple come to it’s senses? – I certainly hope so.

Via: Mac Rumors / The LA Times

R-Fly

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The App Store: I Am Rich (The Slightly Overpriced Photo, for iPhone) – [Updatedx2].

Thats it. Thats what you get.

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[Updatex2] – 06.08.08

- The application has been pulled off the App Store by either the developer himself, or Apple.

[Update] – 06.08.08

- I’ve just got word this is now, officially, the most expensive item on the entire iTunes Application Store.
(Time for a graphic change)

Original Article:

‘I Am Rich’, or Armin Heinrich obviously wants to be, with his latest submission to the App Store entitled ‘I Am Rich’ retailing for £599.99.

So Whats all the Fuss About?
Basically ‘I Am Rich’ is a Photo-shopped image of a red diamond. Yes – you heard me, an image, for £599.99. “But – Surely no-one would spend £599.99 on a picture so easily replicated for iPhone, right?” – Wrong. The concept of the application is, if you own it, your rich. Simply as.

Another one for Posh ‘n’ Becks then, it seems.

WARNING: I am now going to provide the link to this application.

Please note: This application is extremely high priced, and if you have one-click buying power on your iTunes account setup, I advise extreme caution to be taken by you, during the 30 seconds you look at this linked page. Also note, that I, Razorianfly (Arron Hirst) am not responsible for ‘accidental’ clicks or purchases of the following item, by you, your dog, pet monkey, nearby rabbit or 10ft Anaconda.

App Store Link: I Am Rich

R-Fly

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