The company isn’t sharing exact numbers, but they did just tell me that their download numbers for their first weekend on the store were well over 300,000. At $2.99 a pop, that works out to one hell of a bounty. SkyFire isn’t walking away with that whole million, of course; Apple’s going to get their […]
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Skyfire Generates Nearly $1 Million in Sales in its First Weekend!

Nov 11th 2010 by

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The company isn’t sharing exact numbers, but they did just tell me that their download numbers for their first weekend on the store were well over 300,000. At $2.99 a pop, that works out to one hell of a bounty. SkyFire isn’t walking away with that whole million, of course; Apple’s going to get their 30% cut, which brings SkyFire’s share down to somewhere between $600-700,000.

That’s an excerpt from a recent report at MobileCrunch, on the staggering early success of the Skyfire Web Browser app for iPhone – the one that converts Flash videos so they can be played on the iPhone.

Yowza, those are huge numbers, especially considering that the app originally hit the App Store and was quickly pulled by the developers because their servers couldn’t handle the load – so it had a shaky weekend of being available / not available. I wonder when we will start to see iOS apps be described as ‘blockbusters’ or have their opening weekend take measured like movies.

News via: MobileCrunch

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