Mad Mac Maniac
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Psh, I would totally use this app. iAds are fun! Of course I would only use it when I'm ridiculously bored... but hey, it happens.
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Developer Earns Nearly $1,400 in One Day With iAds
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Psh, I would totally use this app. iAds are fun! Of course I would only use it when I'm ridiculously bored... but hey, it happens.
Mad Mac Maniac
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try sycing to your computer. That is when iAds are loaded/updated onto your iphone.
Alright. I'm PISSED with apple. Just because they don't approve my ***** app within a reasonable amount of time I am losing HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of dollars right now. I submitted my flashlight app well over a week ago with Iads and it was free. This stupid-as* bozo gets his approved within a couple days and makes over a thousand dollars on it. This worst part about it--I can't do anything about it. I make a living off of developing for them. Flipping help me out. Jesus.
You make a living off of developing this flashlight app?
Two things:
- Clearly there is something about your app that made it require extra review time. Maybe yours sucks?
- Flashlight apps are NOT original. There are going to be hundreds upon hundreds of them in the app store in a matter of no time.
And developers can make more money than selling $0.99 app downloaded once, while ads can be clicked on many times.
Good for consumers, good for developers, bad for pirates.
Dude. Like you said It's a flashlight app. It works just like the other ones. It's not that hard to approve it. Even more annoying, mine is better than this one as well because not only is it visually appealing but also because it doesn't flipping crash because of iad.
Maybe not specifically but you mentioned "a number of apps" and I'm fairly sure this is the only free one that uses the led. You helped the apps stats is the point I'm making.
i'm in the wrong business
no you're not. this is simply marketing for the iAd platform. developers will read this and (some of them) will hop on the "gold rush" immediately, but it will only be successful for popular apps.
All this means is the advertisers are overpaying for advertising.
Those numbers will change drastically as advertisers analyze them.
I know a lot about online advertising, and that is absurd. Suffice it to say, don't go learn how to make apps today thinking you are going to make 1500 a day in iAds.
Those numbers will change drastically as advertisers analyze them.
I know a lot about online advertising, and that is absurd. Suffice it to say, don't go learn how to make apps today thinking you are going to make 1500 a day in iAds.
someone should make a morse code messaging app using the LED flashlight.
Type in your message, app translates to morse, and boom. Instant success.
Look at me giving you DEVS ideas. Please credit me with an in-app shout out if you make this.
Type in your message, app translates to morse, and boom. Instant success.
Look at me giving you DEVS ideas. Please credit me with an in-app shout out if you make this.
Get angry at the onsumers for buying a 'phoe with suh a restrictive, arbitrary publishing policy where the only one guaranteed money is Apple. This should get more people buying your app
I know right. It almost makes me want to create a bunch of silly apps like flashlight and put iAds in it. $1400/day is crazy good money for spending 5 mins to create a flashlight app.
I'd be happy with $200/day for a few weeks just for making a flashlight app.
someone should make a morse code messaging app using the LED flashlight.
Type in your message, app translates to morse, and boom. Instant success.
Look at me giving you DEVS ideas. Please credit me with an in-app shout out if you make this.
I actually already had this in the works for my FREE flashlight app that app STILL hasn't approved even though I sent it in over a week ago.
someone should make a morse code messaging app using the LED flashlight.
Type in your message, app translates to morse, and boom. Instant success.
Look at me giving you DEVS ideas. Please credit me with an in-app shout out if you make this.
I'll take this a step further and utilize the rear camera as a sensor to accept and translate incoming flashing LED light signals to translate from Morse to whatever.
"D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E"
someone should make a morse code messaging app using the LED flashlight.
Type in your message, app translates to morse, and boom. Instant success.
Look at me giving you DEVS ideas. Please credit me with an in-app shout out if you make this.
There is one already.
http://appshopper.com/utilities/morse-code-flash-light
someone should make a morse code messaging app using the LED flashlight.
Type in your message, app translates to morse, and boom. Instant success.
Look at me giving you DEVS ideas. Please credit me with an in-app shout out if you make this.
Already did it two weeks ago...should be up today
Get angry at the onsumers for buying a 'phoe with suh a restrictive, arbitrary publishing policy where the only one guaranteed money is Apple. This should get more people buying your app
I would never get angry at my customers. I have always been a DIE HARD (and I do mean die hard) Apple fan, but now Apple is making it really hard to keep liking them. I agree completely with your statement about Apple's publishing policy. They couldn't care less about developers. All they care about is their share. Just look at steve's iAd presentation. He says something along the lines of we care about developers, and they need to make money too. Only then does he announce that developers only get 60% of it. This poor developer really made $1,400, but only gets about $840 of it. Sad.