The image above may look like a real newspaper image, but no it is not. I wrote the text an using “The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator”. So funny!
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Could an Android App make someone a fortune?
Ever since I have seen the first iPhone and Android Apps I have been wondering: “How much money could someone earn on apps?” Apps are typically sold at a very small price starting around 1$ – but if you sell a lot of them at that price even one dollar can turn into a big amount! So I looked into AppBrain which is an online service on top of the Android Market adding extra which come in handy for most Android users I guess. You can read my review of AppBrain elsewhere on my blog. Anyway, I have put together a table showing just some of the apps and how much the seem to have been generating (if you can trust the figures at AppBrain).
| App name | Category | Approx. downloads | Price | Value from $ | Value to $ |
| Robo Defense | Arcade & Action | 50,000-250,000 | $2.99 | $149,500 | $747,500 |
| Beautiful Widgets | News & Weather | 50,000-250,000 | $2.03 | $101,500 | $507,500 |
| Tower Raiders GOLD | Arcade & Action | 5,000-10,000 | $4.99 | $24,950 | $49,900 |
| DocumentsToGo Full Version Key | Productivity | 50,000-250,000 | $14.99 | $749,500 | $3,747,500 |
| Gang Wars 250 Respect Points | Arcade & Action | 1,000-5,000 | $19.00 | $19,000 | $95,000 |
| WeatherBug Elite | News & Weather | 10,000-50,000 | $1.99 | $19,900 | $99,5000 |
Using Microsoft excel I have created a simpel graph showing these numbers in a graph (sorry about the danish thousend seperator):
I will let the numbers and graph speak for themself – please comment on them, and if you have earned some cash creating an app for Android or iPhone, I would love to get your comments/experiences as well here!