What Developers Think About Apple's iAd

Nemilar writes "It's been about a week since Apple rolled out its new advertising platform, and developers of iPhone apps are watching the earliest returns to see how much money they can expect to make from these ads. One developer reported Thursday that he earned $1,400 in one day for his flashlight app. The amount iAds pay is 'a high number when you get it, but you don't get it very often,' said Dave Yonamine, the director of marketing at MobilityWare. The article discusses revenue potential in relation to the only other mobile ads platform, AdMob for Android, and claims that iAd paid as much as $148 for the same number of ads as $1 on AdMob; but this extreme ratio is likely to erode as the novelty wears off."

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Re:iAD

[tomhudson]

The point is that the iPhone is not $199. Buy one, lose it or break it, and you'll have to pay more - a lot more - than $199 to replace it with an unsubsidized one, so your argument about "why would I cancel" is both pointless and misleading.

Re:iAD

[mjwx]

Where is this $600 that you speak of? That's nowhere near what I paid for my iPhone.

You're quite right, that is nowhere near what you paid for your Iphone.

If you bought it on a contract you paid about 3 times that amount. If you terminate early you have to pay a fee for the handset or hand it back.

If you want to buy it outright you can start around US$850.