Wiley Appillionaires: Secrets from Developers Who Struck It Rich on the App Store 978-1-1199-7864-0 사용자 설명서

INTRODUCTION

THEY ARE THE

 Appillionaires: Smart, ambitious dreamers in bedrooms 

and garages across the world, plotting the future of mobile apps. Th

 eir 

tools are inexpensive — a MacBook Pro and an iPhone — but overnight 
the Appillionaires can amass a fortune from selling soft ware on the iTunes 
App Store. Th

  ey lead a revival of the hobbyist programmer. Not since the 

days of the Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 has indie soft ware been sold by 
such tiny teams of programmers to such massive numbers of consumers. 

Th

  e money fl ows to the Appillionaires even as they sleep. While they 

dream their Angry Bird-dreams, invisible electronic transfers push money 
into the Appillionaires’ bank accounts from App Stores in over 80 diff erent 
countries. As much as $250 million gets spent at the App Store in a single 
month. Over 10 billion apps have been sold on the store to date and it’s 
estimated that Apple has signed up at least 79,000 soft ware publishers to 
the iOS (iPhone and iPad operating system) club.

What’s remarkable is that Apple’s credibility was bolstered so much by the 
success of the iPod and iPhone that the rise of the iPhone app was widely 
predicted. Even before the launch of the App Store back in 2008, Wired 
magazine speculated, “iPhone soft ware development may spark a soft ware 
gold rush not seen since the heyday of PC-platform development in 
the 1990s.”

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