iPhone’s iShoot developer earned USD37,000 a day
It was reported in wired.com in February 2009 that Ethan Nicholas single-handedly developed an Apple iPhone tank artillery game called iShoot and managed to earn USD600,000 in a single month with it.
That’s despite a glut in items to choose from at Apple’s iPhone application store: more than 20,000 applications.
Nicholas said he quit his job as an engineer at Sun Microsystems when his app hit Number One in the application store: that feat earned him USD37,000.
In one day!
One has to admire the guy. He was quoted to have said that when he first started off, he didn’t have the money to buy books, so he learnt from website. Then he worked on iShoot 8 hours a day after his shift, cradling his baby on the other hand. I say he rewards himself by installing stone sinks in his house now.
