Archive - August 2014

A brief update for all of you on a few topics of note over the past weeks: App Store revenue, iPhone 6 rumors, iOS testing, and Swift.

First, Allen Ding, the creator of Kiwi, a BDD framework for Cocoa, writes about his experiences with making money in the App Store. In his first attempt to make money on his app, Saved, he used a freemium model, saw the app downloaded 107,000 times after spending about $1,500 on Facebook a...

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A new issue of Objc.io is out, and this month focuses entirely on testing. I wouldn't say that I'm dogmatic when it comes to my testing practices. Test Driven Development, and its idea of always writing a test before writing new code has never worked right for me 100% of the time. I think it's a great tool to rely upon under the right circumstances, but you need to understand what those circumstances are. One example of where I ...

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Since last week, a couple more interesting posts have surfaced on how to survive in the App Store. In particular, Stuart Hall published an in-depth look at the value of driving revenue with in-app purchases. I find it distressing that an app with almost 2 million downloads can make as little as $60,000, but that's still a lot better than $0. Although I have no inside knowledge, my guess is that Stuart either already makes as much, or will soon, with his AppBot s...

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In case you missed it, Jared Sinclair kicked off this past week by offering an in-depth look at the sales figures on his RSS reader, Unread. If you've been an iOS developer for a while, you probably already know how this story ends. Making it as an indie developer, at least in the mobile space, is incredibly challenging.

That game you've poured your heart and soul into for the past 12 months? It's probably not going to earn...

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