The BBC reported this week that the market for mobile phone applications (Apps) will be as big as the internet with a projected 10 million apps available by 2020.
Is there money to be made? Oh yes!
"Firemint" an Australian gaming studio released "Flight Control" earlier this year, it topped the apps chart and stayed there. During March and April it was downloaded over 700,000 times. For each $1.19 purchase Apple take 30% leaving $0.83 to Firemint. This is an amazing $583,100.00 in just two months!
Obviously there will have been development costs (rumoured to have been $50,000) and tax to pay but this is still quite an incentive to start programming. Apple haven't made this easy though. I did a little research (not wanting to miss an opportunity) and discovered that the programming language used is called "objective C" which is used almost exclusively by Apple. I suspect that this is their way of making sure that the success of app store applications does not get utilised by their opposition who mostly use Java.
Whilst you are wondering if it is worth learning a new language, perhaps this will add further momentum to your thought processes, 02 have launched a £10,000 iphone app contest today.
Tempted? Well you needed something to do during the school holidays didn't you?
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