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Christmas Holiday Boosts App Store Sales, iFart Mobile Triples Sales

Saturday December 27, 2008 9:43 pm PST by Arnold Kim
iFart Mobile developer reveals that sales of his iFart Mobile application were boosted over 3x over the course of Christmas eve and Christmas day. MacRumors had previously reported the sales numbers for the #1 spot had topped out at 13,274 units on December 22nd.

The developer reveals that on Christmas eve sales jumped to 19,520 units and on Christmas day sales shot up to 38,927. After Apple's cut, that represents $27,249 in net revenue for Christmas day alone.

App Store Link: iFart Mobile, $0.99
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iParis
Posted: 45 months ago
Geeze.
I bet it's because a bunch of people got iPod touch's and started downloading needless amounts of apps.
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Zincous
Posted: 45 months ago
Holy crap that is crazy
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nickspohn
Posted: 45 months ago
He got EXTREMELY lucky. Nothing better than having the top paid app, for a cheap price, when everyone clicks on their new app store icon for the first time.

More power to him though, because he is bringing in some serious money.
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Harpo
Posted: 45 months ago
It is a little depressing that this is the top app, isn't it?

Oh, well. I suppose the developer has brought smiles to many faces.
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DipDog3
Posted: 45 months ago
We were already discussing this in another thread before it hit the frontpage:

The total sales so far for iFart Mobile is 113,885 units in JUST TWO WEEKS! That translates into about $73,000. If Joel can keep up this pace, he could bring in TWO MILLION DOLLARS in just one year!


http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=623661
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bobbleheadbob
Posted: 45 months ago
I've been enjoying this app for a week or so. I particularly enjoy letting one rip on the train. ;)
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Solitaire City
Posted: 45 months ago
I've seen sales of Solitaire City increase 3x to 4x on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and double in the two days leading up to Christmas and other devs are reporting a similar boost in sales so you don't have to be #1 to enjoy a surprise Christmas present from Apple (although iFart's sales blew me away, no pun intended).
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IlanaSense
Posted: 45 months ago

I've been enjoying this app for a week or so. I particularly enjoy letting one rip on the train. ;)


Ahh.. so you're the target consumer!

Couldnt figure out for the life of me who was downloading farty stuff.
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BornAgainMac
Posted: 45 months ago
I wonder if the U.S. auto workers should learn to program instead of what they do now. No unions, it will be weird for them at first. Just a thought.
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Maxington
Posted: 45 months ago
Sounds like the long tail of programming. Selling to unique and small markets
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