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BloggingStocks — ... )'s bet on cellphone software appears to be paying off as it has users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for the iPhone from its recently opened App Store. Apple sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of about $30 million in sales over the month, CEO Jobs said. That'd be $360 million a year at this rate. ...

Apple makes next to nothing on iPhone software
BloggingStocks — ... According to The Wall Street Journal, "If sales stay at the current pace, Apple stands to reap at least $360 million a year in new revenue from the App Store." The data show the extent to which Apple is still a hardware company. Apple's revenue run rate is now about $30 billion a year. ...

Super Monkey Ball Patch to Improve Controls
Touch Arcade — ... Super Monkey Ball’s immense popularity, one of the biggest complaints is the difficulty with the accelerometer control sensitivity. The patch should (at least) introduce the ability to tweak the “dead zone” in “Super Monkey Ball.” The dead zone is the orientation at which you could hold the iPhone to stop moving. As it stands, it’s almost impossible to find the “dead zone” without dying multiple times. Super Monkey Ball sold over 300,000 copies in its first 20 days. No timeframe for the update has been ...