600 sales a day for #1 iPhone Paid Book App

The story of the current #1 Paid iPhone Book App includes – A Kindle focused app called Kindling, which Apple rejected. Making $700 to $900 a day from free public domain books. Lots of really cool optimizations and App Store secrets. It also suggests that ‘iPhone is the future of reading’ is quite an exaggeration. Amazing Story of the $700 a [...]

Kindle Vs Apple Reader

We are seeing the beginnings of a Kindle Vs Apple Reader battle – the pipes and tubes of the Internet are abuzz with rumors that Apple has been approaching book publishers and promising a 70% cut. Apple seem to have set their sights firmly on the Kindle and the associated revenue streams. Amazon Kindle Vs Apple Reader [...]

Will Apple Slate Reader be an aspirational product?

There are quite a few people waiting for the Apple Slate. They plan on having the Apple Slate or iTablet as their eReader instead of the Kindle or the Nook. It makes you wonder – What if the Apple Slate keeps getting delayed or never releases? We have been expecting it for over a year now. What if the Apple Slate is priced too high?  [...]

Channel of Good Intent – iPhone is, Android isn’t

Here’s an easy way to illustrate what the difference between a good channel and a mediocre channel is. Reuters reports from Barcelona where Alexandre de Rochefort of game company GameLoft says GameLoft and other game developers are cutting back on making Android games – “We are selling 400 times more games on iPhone than on Android,” Rochefort said. On [...]

Are Developers over-reacting to App Store rules?

Ars Technica has a great article on developers fleeing the App Store platform - The developer who coded Facebook for iPhone (while working at Facebook) left because his Three20 framework used private API calls and apps using his framework got rejected because of that.  Second gear’s Justin Williams left because Apple didn’t approve Google Voice and [...]