Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs reported today in a Wall Street Journal article that, in the first month since the iTunes App Store opened, consumers have downloaded more than 60 million apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. “Ive never seen anything like this in my career for software,” he said. Apple sold about $1 million per day of paid apps over the month. At the current pace, the company “could stand to reap at least $360 million a year in new revenue from the App Store,” that article said. “This thing’s going to crest at half a billion, soon,” said Jobs. More details in the article, linked above.

Well, almost a month — a day short, actually, since the App Store launched July 10. The iPhone 3G launch was July 11, but, if you were paying attention, you knew that people were able to get at the App Store on iTunes the day before and start downloading. We were lucky enough to have our “myLIte Color Strobe and Flashlight” app up on the store right from the inception (followed by two more within a week, MyTo-Dos and Magic 8 Ball by DoApp). There were about 500 apps in the store when it opened, and there are about 1000 as of this date. Again, if you were paying attention, you may have known we launched myLite at 99 cents, then made the decision late on July 11 to drop the price to the best one of all: FREE! And we announced that fact with a press release early the morning of July 12 (a Saturday). Read More »

Well, Mark Zuckerberg is in the process of doing it again….changing the entire way Facebook works. Recently, his firm released “the new look” of Facebook, which you must opt-in to get. However, we can only wonder when they will switch their entire platform over to this look. My initial reaction to the change was, “Why?” Facebook has a great thing going — it’s clean (until we as users decide to add a thousand apps to our pages!), it works great, and it gets innovative updates all the time. Why now must it change and try to be an online operating system? Read More »

It has been absolutely fantastic to watch the App Store take off! I think a lot of us at DoApp had some great “gut feelings” about what was going to happen with the iPhone 2.0 release, but we were all carefully pessimistic. It has been very entertaining to read the reviews, blogs, and rumors that wrap up the everyday soap opera that is the new iPhone software. This device is Apple’s new celebrity, and some users would love to see it succeed, while others would get pure enjoyment in watching it crash and burn. Apple has yet to show real weakness on this one. They have made some blunders in the past but, now that the iPhone is here, Apple’s strategy looks all the more smartly devised. I’ve been lured into their infrastructure with OS X, the iPod, iTunes, Safari, and now the iPhone.

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I fancy myself a mus-ic-aholic… addicted to the good beats of a song, especially while I have my head down cranking out code. I’ve been a Trance DJ for nearly five years and, over that time, the industry has really changed. When I started, DJ-ing with vinyls was the only way to go. I picked up my two Technic 1200 DJ edition turntables and skimped on a mixer in order to purchase some tracks to play. Yet, these days, I hardly find myself ever purchasing a CD anymore, let alone a vinyl. Have we gone completely digital with our music? I know I have…. Read More »

DoApp Inc. is a *little* busy right now….yeah, like Google has a little prominence in the Internet world! For months, we’ve been focused and plugging away, just counting the days till the Apple iTunes App Store opened. Well, as the world now knows, it did on July 11.

As of this writing, three of our iPhone apps have gone live, and it brings me a huge amount of pleasure and satisfaction to be able to say that our “myLite Color Strobe and Flashlight” ranks #1 of all Utility apps in the App Store…and, get this, #8 of *all* free apps, overall. Now, for some of my friends reading this who are not new-technology hounds…let me tell you: this is big! The publicity gained from our management decision to change the price from 99 cents to free is reaping immeasurable rewards — partly because our numbers are, uh, still not measurable! And partly because we’re now getting widely recognized for our accomplishments…. Read More »

Our friends at the great local blog Minnov8, which is all about Minnesota innovation in Internet technology, wrote a nice piece on DoApp earlier today, called Minnesota Keeps Feeding the iPhone Habit.

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Our leading local daily has discovered what we’re up to: Apple shines on Minneapolis firm’s iPhone app. An excerpt:

“We’ve all done it: flipped open a cell phone in the dark to hunt for a dropped pen or the keyhole on a car door. Now a Minneapolis software developer has capitalized on this alternative use of the cell phone and found itself in the spotlight on the new Apple iPhone App Store.

DoApp, which develops widgets and other applications for websites, computers and portable devices, quietly released its program to convert the iPhone into a flashlight, a strobe light or even a night light. But after Apple opened its online applications store, DoApp’s “myLite Color Strobe and Flashlight” program quickly broke into the store’s top 10 free downloads.” Read More »

Have a Twitter account yet? It’s free, and it’s a great way for users of our apps to follow what we’re up to. We’ll tweet interesting tidbits and facts, news, etc, and we’ll link to new blog posts we do, new pages on our site, great articles we find — whatever we can do within 140 characters per tweet! Once you have an account set up, just go to www.twitter.com/doapp and click “Follow” — then you’ll get all our updates from now on!

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Check out this BusinessWeek article on iPhone apps.  Here’s an excerpt:

“For all the frenzy it generated, the new iPhone 3G was actually the second most important product launched by Apple on July 11. The real action was the opening of the iPhone App Store… ”

Love the image from the story, too….

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