AppleInsider StaffThere are now a million users of iPhoto for iPhone and iPad, Apple announced to The Loop. The number applies to users and not downloads, meaning it sold a million copies of the software.
At $5 apiece, that means Apple made $5 million from the software in its first 10 days of availability. The application was released two weeks ago, after the company unveiled its third-generation iPad.
Dubbed a "reinvention" of the preexisting iPhoto for Mac, the new version takes advantage of the multi-touch capabilities of the iPad and iPhone. It also supports photo sizes up to 19 megapixels.
As of Wednesday afternoon, iPhoto was the second-most-popular paid application on the iPad App Store, holding an average user rating of three-and-a-half stars out of five from nearly 2,300 reviews. On the iPhone App Store, where applications priced at 99 cents tend to dominate sales, iPhoto is currently the 18th-best-selling paid application, though it ranks 15th among the top grossing.
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I would love to know how much it cost to produce iPhoto for iOS.
This is what happens when you price software fairly. I feel the sweet spot is a little higher then $5, but not $79 like some other companies want. Make it cheap and EASY to purchase like Apple has and you will certainly reduce piracy to irreverent levels.
Or you can have reduced customer satisfaction, hard to use and expensive to maintain copy protection, a team of costly lawyers to sue customers (totally taking them and everyone they know out of the future customer group) and unrealistic customer expectations due to the price like some other companies enjoy.
I would love to know how much it cost to produce iPhoto for iOS.
Me too... If I had to wager a guess, it is 106MB, figure 80% of that is images, you are around a million lines of code. If they re-used 50% of that, you might be looking at around $5-10MM invested in programming plus another $5MM in design. Based on some of the negative reviews, not all of that money has been put in yet, but I haven't bought it.
An independent company could likely do it for half that cost safely given lower overhead.
Apps like iPhoto make all the difference. Put the right apps and it’s s quite powerful device.
This is what happens when you price software fairly. I feel the sweet spot is a little higher then $5
I think that Apple left money on the table.
Would a price of $8 changed anyone's purchase decision? I think that demand is price inelastic under $10 for software of this quality and usefulness.