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Steve Jobs: 60 million iPhone apps downloaded, confirms kill switch
Engadget — ... Steve Jobs, presumably speaking from a hyperbaric chamber where he's being nourished with an infusion of liquified developer-souls before his next public appearance, had a few interesting tidbits about the AppStore for the Wall Street Journal this morning. Namely, users have downloaded some 60 million programs for the iPhone representing sales of about $30 million since the launch last month -- a 30/70 revenue split between Apple and developers, respectively. "The thing's going to crest a half billion soon," Jobs added, "I've never seen anything like this in ...

Steve Jobs discusses App Store with Wall Street Journal
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple, iPhone, App StoreThis morning's Wall Street Journal has a really interesting article (use Google News to view the complete text) about the App Store, complete with quotes from Steve Jobs himself! While the full article is definitely worth a read, here are some of the highlights: After the first month, App Store sales are about $30 million US, meaning at least $360 million in revenue for Apple if sales continue at that pace (we discussed the success of the App Store on a ...

Apple's App Store sees first month sales of $30 million
AppleInsider — ... Published: 08:00 AM EST Users of Apple's new App Store have downloaded more than 60 million programs, generating a total of about $30 million in sales since the service launched one month ago, according to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published early Monday morning, Jobs revealed that while the majority of those applications were free, the App Store still raked in an average $1 million a day from pay-per-download programs -- or an estimated annual sales rate of $360 million. "This thing's going to crest a half a billion, ...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs: Over 60 million apps downloaded from App Store in first month
MacDailyNews — ... says Simon Jeffery, president of Sega's U.S. division. 'It gives iPhone a justifiable claim to being a viable gaming platform,'" Wingfield reports. "Mr. Jobs said developers' share of iPhone application sales in the first month was about $21 million, of which the top 10 developers earned roughly $9 million." More in the full article, including an Apple spokeswoman quoted as saying that Apple made a "judgment call" to remove the US$999.99 "I Am Rich" app from the App Store, here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "davecc" for the heads up.] MacDailyNews Take: Despite the fact ...

iPhone App Store: Big Success
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek — iPhone App Store: Big Success Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 11 I admit it. I was ambivalent about the iPhone the first time around. It was beautiful and fun, and intriguing at first, but once I had tried out everything it could do, I got bored with it. I couldn’t add anything to it to make it do more things. Now I have a completely different view. I’ve been alternating between an iPhone 3G and an iPod touch and have been absolutely unable to put them down. The reason? The iTunes App Store. There’s always something new and interesting to install on the device and play around with, and a lot of the time, they’re free. My four very favorite iPhone Apps are the ...

Jobs confirms iPhone application "kill switch"
Macworld — ... certainly got people talking. While the purpose of said blacklist wasn’t apparent, there was still quite a bit of argument over whether or not an application blacklist was a method that Apple should be employing. Now we’ve got confirmation from Steve Jobs himself that a “kill switch” mechanism does exist on the iPhone. Speaking to the ...

App Store Crests 60M Downloads, $30M Sales in First Month
Touch Podium — ... For an online establishment that’s only been open for four weeks, it’s certainly doing exceptionally well for itself. The Steve was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal over this past weekend and laid down some very interesting numbers. ...

App Store - 60 Million Downloads
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — App Store In an interview with the Wall Street Journal , Steve Jobs reported that iPhone /iPod touch owners had downloaded more than 60 million applications from the iTunes App Store. While most of the downloads were for free apps, Steve reported that the App Store had generated $30 million in revenue in its first 30 days. Steve also revealed that Apple does indeed have the capability to "turn off" an app remotely. The capability was discovered last week and and has some users concerned about privacy. Steve told the Wall Street Journal that Apple would only ...

AppStore Sales Hit $1M per Day in First Month
Cult of Mac — Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal users downloaded over 60 million iPhone applications and rung up sales of close to $30 million in the first month the AppStore was open for business. While many of the iPhone applications available at the AppStore are free, paid apps such as Sega Corp.’s $9.99 Super Monkeball game helped bring in nearly $9 million to the top ten developers selling apps on the store. In all, Apple will distribute over $21 million in revenues from the 70% cut of sales developers make for software sold through the AppStore. Jobs said the early results point to the success of Apple’s strategy to invest in the ...

Jobs confirms App Store kill switch; 60M apps downloaded
The Apple Core — August 11th, 2008 Jobs confirms App Store kill switch; 60M apps downloaded Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 10:16 am Categories: Steve Jobs , iTunes Store , App Store Tags: job , steve jobs , apple inc. , sales strategy , hacking , advertising & promotion , viruses and worms , sales , security , marketing Jobs confirms App Store kill switch; 60M apps downloaded In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirms that a “kill switch” exists for malicious iPhone applications justifying it as a necessary safeguard against a ...

Vetting the App Store approval process
Macworld — The App Store has been with us for a month now, and, by many measures, it’s a roaring success. Apple told the Wall Street Journal that it averages around $1 million a day in iPhone application sales , for a grand total of around $30 million in the App Store’s first month of existence. (Apple keeps only 30 percent of that under its revenue-sharing agreement with app developers, but that's still a nice chunk of change.) Shoppers have plenty of choices—the ...

Apple loses shine with networking, supply chain issues
Macworld — Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from CIO.com . Visit CIO’s Macs in the Enterprise page . In an internal company e-mail obtained by several media outlets in early August, Apple CEO Steve Jobs fessed up to the problems surrounding the company’s summer product blitz. “It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G , iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store,” Jobs wrote in the e-mail “We all had more than enough to do,” he added, “and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.” MobileMe’s initial problems during the launch on Friday, July 11, the subsequent 11-day outage that roiled Apple’s rabid ...

Briefly: $30 million of App Store sales, iPhones at Best Buy, iPhone Firmware
MacScoop.com — Here's a brief catch-up with iPhone related news: Apple announced that it has sold more than $30 million woth of iPhone Software in the first month after its launch. "I've never seen anything like this in my career for software.", Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs told the WallStreet Journal during an interview ...

Briefly: $30 million of App Store sales, iPhones at Best Buy, iPhone Firmware
MacScoop.com — Here's a brief catch-up with iPhone related news: Apple announced that it has sold more than $30 million woth of iPhone Software in the first month after its launch. "I've never seen anything like this in my career for software.", Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs told the WallStreet Journal during an interview ...

App Store successful, but shows flaws
MacBytes.com — ... between Apple and some app developers, new applications continue to appear and sales are brisk. In September, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the App Store had served up more than 100 million apps in its first 60 days, and an earlier Wall Street Journal report quoted Jobs as saying that the store had generated $30 million in sales in its first 30 days of existence. Jobs even mused that the App Store could be a $1 billion market someday. But despite all that, some users, analysts, and developers are critical of Apple's decision to shoehorn the App store inside of ...

Estimating Apple iPhone App Sales So Far: $50-$100 Million In Revenue (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and iPod touch customers have downloaded some 300 million software apps since Apple started selling them in July. We estimate that Apple has booked $50 million to $100 million in revenue so from those sales. Regardless, it's couch change for Apple, which topped $32 billion in sales last fiscal year. More important is that Apple's app platform is still far ahead of its competition. And we think it's doing its real job, too: Helping Apple sell more iPhones and iPod touches, which are worth much, much more to Apple's top and bottom lines. How'd we get $50 million to $100 million? Apple has told the WSJ ...

Apple Flaunts Half A Billion Apps Downloaded
iPhone Savior — A visit to Apple.com today reveals a splash page flaunting "500 Million apps downloaded. And counting."  Apple currently boasts an unbelievable 15,000 apps in the App store. The iTunes App Store launched on July 11, 2008 in tandem with iPhone 3G which ushered in a new culture craze for Apple's iPhone faithful. In the first month after the App Store was born 60 million apps were downloaded for the iPhone. "I've never seen anything like this in my career for software," Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal. This thing's going to crest a half a billion, soon," Jobs added. "Who knows, ...

About Those iPhone App Store Revenue Numbers
TechCrunch — I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Apple’s App Store has been more successful that even Apple ever imagined. It entered a market that had been completely controlled by carriers and handed the keys over to third-party developers to make their own apps. Just over nine months later, over 35,000 of those apps had been made which have been downloaded over a billion times. So it’s surprising when you see numbers like the ones Lightspeed Venture Partners published yesterday, estimating that Apple had made only somewhere between $20 and $45 million dollars in revenue off of the App Store. Surprising, until you dig deeper. ...