Steve Jobs recently revealed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that, users have downloaded more than 60 million applications from the iTunes App Store in its first month online. While most apps downloaded were free, Jobs revealed that the App Store saw $30 million in sales over the first month, averaging $1 million a day.
Game titles account for over 25% of the App Store’s current catalog of 1620 apps and game downloads were no small part of the overall sales. SEGA saw over 300,000 downloads of its popular accelerometer-controller maze game Super Monkey Ball [$9.99, App Store] in just 20 days–that’s $3 million in sales.
“That’s a substantial business," says Simon Jeffery, president of Sega’s U.S. division. “It gives iPhone a justifiable claim to being a viable gaming platform."
Mac Rumors recently reported that Eliza Block, a PhD student and independent developer who created the popular 2 Across [App Store] crossword puzzle game, saw early sales of around $1,800 per day.
The iTunes App Store and its large library of quality applications created with Apple’s free iPhone SDK make up what is certainly the most significant component of “iPhone 2.0" and truly set the iPhone apart from other smartphones and mobile devices. At the current rate, Apple stands to see the store generate $360 million a year in revenue. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my career for software," Jobs commented.
With the iTunes App Store, Apple has removed the barrier to entry for developers and transformed mobile application deployment–a heretofore woefully archaic arena–into a painless user experience. It’s really no wonder that the App Store has been so well received. We’re anxious to see what the bright future hold for iPhone games and applications.
The sound effect (SFX) of Toy Bot Diaries seem to be affected as well. The background music is not affected.
ack! Good to know. Just got that game.
You can take 10% of my apps away from me until they get updated. Just keep me protected from unexpected-quits. Do we have a deal? :)
I'm sure lots of developers are going to love the extra work they now have to do. I'm going to wait a bit before updating and see how this pans out...
looks like a good update though
I can confirm the Last.FM app is useless until updated. I'm not the only one who discovered this.
It's to be expected.
I don't know if it's just me, but the "drifting sound" on Asphalt 4 has gone bit crazy. Need to turn the sounds off if I want to play the game without damaging my ears :(
EDIT: Now that I try to start a race the whole game freezes. Pushing the home button quits the game though. I have to try if resetting the phone helps.
Brain tuner crashes.
Truphone caused an "out of memory error" on me today and kept ringing the phone I was dialing. Don't know if this is a problem just for me or not.
I'm getting no audio in Last.FM and when I pressed the stop button, it crashed.
I use Last.fm a lot, so I may have to wait until this is sorted out before I upgrade.
I installed it today. All my games still work (that I've tested) and installing new games is super fast. Funky Punch Lite took about 10-15 seconds. I was up to 3 minute install times even for Papiriver before 2.1.
Just chiming in to confirm the Asphalt and Pinball problem, updates soon... hopefully.
All of my 3rd party apps were crashing when I first updated...
Deleated and reinstalled them and they seem to be working fine now...
Someone should contact those developers so that they're aware of the issues and fix them as soon as possible. This will likely be an ongoing issue, since Apple puts out a good amount of updates. Hopefully not all of them will affect the apps, and hopefully some of them will contain features that have been requested since the first generation iPhone was introduced.
Yep, Zen Pinball is crocked for me too. Everything else on my phone does seem OK though..
Yup, in both Toy Bot Diaries and the demo some sounds are corrupted.
Other games seem fine though.
Voice Dialer no longer works. It launches but doesn't appear to react to any voice commands.
Asphalt fans, check your options for sound. There are separate controls for the background music and the sound effects. The 2.1 update defaults to 100% volume. The volume control buttons on the iPhone only controls the background music resulting in the unpleasant screech while drifting.
Well, in Alli's Jigsaw Puzzle I can't select a new image for it, using the included ones all work fine. Doesn't work on either my 1g or 2g.
I can confirm the same problem with Toy Bot, the background music is fine but the sound effects are horribly distorted on my iPod touch; it's unplayable. I sent an e-mail to the dev about it.
I don't remember Koi Pond being this loud...
I've got tonnes of apps and they work fine!! I've got like 18(two screens worth of them)
Ahhhhh no keyboard lag. Best firmware up to date
And wifi seems quicker too! Loving it!
Reception still as bad as ever where I live. Safari crashed on me as soon as I used it (using the linkedin web site). So far this update has done nothing for me.
@dk206: I hope you are joking. Two screens of 18 apps is hardly a "tonne" compared to most of us... I have 7 pages worth of apps that I have synced to my iPhone with several more apps I haven't synced.
Unfortunately for me, I can't even update since my computer died and seems to be unrecoverable... :(
I intend to e-mail the developer, but for anyone reading, it seems Lexitron has some sound issues as well (loud screeching whenever a sound plays). Luckily it can just be muted, but it never did this before.
the hour and date settings its crashed *only me?*
I have been putting together a list of all apps affected by the 2.1 software update on a forum post. So for over 15 apps may be affected. Here is the link.
http://forums.macrumors.com...
wow Key Pad is a MASSIVE improvment Most noticible
and wi-fi seems alot quicker too
i don't really see any faster booting time or menu flicking (in settings)
and i still haven't used this alot so don't know about the Battery life for now
It seems as if AOL's AIM application is not working since 2.1 either...
I noticed that I have issue with Nullsoft Tuner after I installed 2.1. Some radio streams skipping playback all the time, kind of weird, same thing on wi-fi or 3g, first I thought it was my wireless router issue, but is same thing over 3g.
The update fixed my issue with the UConnect system in my Charger. It works excellent now. I had about 10 updates to apps, but I haven't noticed that anything else was broken. All in all, good work Apple.
Monkey Ball shows the splash screen, then quits. I deleted it, re-installed it, re-downloaded it from the App Store.
Yeah, I'm the developer of Lexitron-- I'm severely annoyed that Apple decided to break my app. I hope they put out another update very soon, because I do not feel like finding workarounds for their glitch.
AIM has not worked for me since the firmware upgrade even after reinstalling the app. Anyone else have this issue?
Texas Hold them crashes, so does platinum solitaire
Hi, YouNote has some issues as well. But a new release will be uploaded today or tomorow with nice enhancements (restore/backup on a desktop).
I have both AIM and Texas Hold 'em and both are working fine under 2.1. The only app not working for me is Monkey Ball. I would love to have someone confirm whether it's just me or not.
I and several other users seem to be having the same problem with Super Monkey Ball. It crashes on launch after updating to 2.1. Nothing I've tried, from restoring the phone to re-downloading the app, etc. has fixed the issue. I've filed a bug with Apple, but no more info yet.
having problems on 2.1 with:
iphoneviderecorder 3g
bugdom 2
ifish
snapture
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Thanks for the update!