Leave it to New York Times best-selling author Joel Comm, to transform the anatomy of a simple fart into hundreds of thousands of dollars in just over two weeks. Joel Comm launched his iFart Mobile iPhone app on December 12th then witnessed his unique blast of flatulence skyrocket to over 100,000 copies sold by Christmas Day. Firmly holding onto the number one position in 'Top Paid' apps.
The net income for Comm, after Apple takes their 30-percent cut amounts to a sweet smelling $70,000 from his $.99 gas app. Roughly $27,000 of that total came from Christmas Day downloads alone, totaling 38,927 purchases. Is it just dumb luck?
iFart Mobile's sneak attack instantly blew the popular "Pull My Finger" farting app from the App Store's number two 'Top Paid' app spot on December 19th. By today "Pull My Finger" can't even be found in the 'Top 50' listings at all.
There seems to be no stopping iFart Mobile when it comes to appealing to the baser nature of iPhone and iPod Touch users, confirming my long held belief that simple is best. The infamous fart, burp and the mythical queff all make for instant comedy no matter what age. Largely because they're authentic and often uncontrolled bursts of bathroom humor. There's some truth to the notion, if you throw enough crap at the wall something's bound to stick.
"With Wal-Mart entering into the iPhone marketplace, the App Store will have more customers than ever before, said Joel Comm, "This is getting interesting." Source: JoelComm.com
Thanks to the newly baptized Cult of iPhone recruits coming into the fold from Walmart, I'm certain Mr. Comm is well on his way to a half million of net profits from iFart in no time. I can't wait to see what kind of 'gold rush' ideas the instant success of iFart brings to some twisted developers. iQueff anyone? Apple will never have it! Or will they?
[Ars Technica via iFart Mobile]
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