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etter to focus on the value of the service and the benefit to your business than to focus purely on the cos

good idea of the value that you should expect from an App Developmen

difficult to provide a price without knowing the specific details of the ap

, let’s take a look at specific applications. I encourage examining the apps themselves to understand what exactly went into them. The production values, complexity, niche, and pricing determine why they produced either excellent or p

he average total number of units sold was 101,024 copies within an average period of 261 days. The average number of units sold per day was 387. The average price was $5.49, although the data skews due to the $49.99 outlier. In most cases, the price point was $0.99. The average number of updates released was 3.89, with the average total development cost amounting to $6,453. Several developers omitted development costs and most did not include their personal time in these figures. It is safe to assume the cost would be at least five or ten times more when using a contracted team. But on average here, iPhone developers are seeing a return of more than 15 times their initial, albeit small, development costs.

However, when the top 10% of the most successful apps are removed from the data set, the numbers skew much lower, giving a far better impression of what the iPhone industry looks like for most developers. In this scenario, the average sales were 11,625 total units, averaging 44 copies/day. Approximately 23% of apps sold less than 1000 units from launch (ranging from 12 to 370 days in the App Store). Further, 56% of apps sold less than or equal to 10,000 units, while 90% sold less than 100,000 units, with the remaining 10% achieving sales of 127,000 – 3,000,000 units.

You're aiming for 0.5M MAU, lets assume a good ARPU of $0.40 given monthly revenues of $200,000.

f your game has a good viral ratio of 0.5, that is, each person invites 0.5 other people, then we can model the equation as 1 / (1 - 0.5) = 2. So for every person we buy, we get 2 kicked out (2 for the price of 1). So, to hit 0.5M MAUs we need to buy approx. 0.5M / 2 = 250,000 users. 

Our cost to acquire a customer (CAC) is probably going to be around $0.50, so the cost to acquire those 250,000 users is $125,000. 

K smartphone users have downloaded over 860 million apps in 201

revenue reached from paid apps in the UK stood at £280 million for 2010

UK currently holds 8 percent

nice but simple app, the design work will likely take a designer about a week, which will cost you about $6,000. The server side will likely require a developer about 2 weeks of work, or about $12,000. Similarly, the app could be written in about 2 weeks as well, another $12,000. Add $5,000 for project management, hosting fees for a year, debugging, unforeseen delays, and your total budget is around $35,000

nice high end app, like a high-end game, numbers are usually much higher. Design will likely cost you $30,000 alone. Development will be in the $150,000+ range. Hosting fees and extras will cost another $30,000. At the end of the day, your app will likely cost you at least $200,000

Infrastructure: Unless your app does not require any interaction with external servers

established an open platform, “Showtime”, that will allow developers to plug into the Zeebox world.

second screen applications would have to be cross platform and not just tied to one telco or broadcaster

HTML5 apps that can be added into the Zeebox platform

Apple TV device is expected to be launched in September

smart TV

Web TV has failed to catch on in the pas

t will take 30% of the revenues earned for go

acebook says it’s taking the 30% cut so it can invest “heavily in the ecosystem