The Amazing iPhone: An Easy-to-Read Report for iPhone Developers

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On January 23, 2009

amazing.png The Amazing iPhone is a free 44 page PDF report aimed at “iPhone developers and business owners”. It’s totally free – no signups or anythine like that, and it was produced by Kisky Netmedia.

The reports starts off with an overview of the iPhone and the opportunities available on the App Store. A lot of it will be apparent to anyone who’s been in the iPhone world for a while, but it could make a great report to pass on to your bosses, clients, investors, or other people who need to get up to speed fast. It also goes into how mobile development was before the iPhone and contrasts it to the newer techniques.

Of more direct interest to experienced eyes is the collation of iPhone sales related data. This is shown per quarter, as well as cumulatively (13 million iPhones were sold by the end of Q4 2008 – over half of which are iPhone 3Gs). Market share between the main smartphone platforms are given (the iPhone already has 17.3% of the market) and the users, competitors, and enterprise features are compared. There’s also a section called What it takes to reach #1 that profiles the infamous “iFart” application that recently held the #1 spot on the App Store for a while. Add to this sections on marketing and monetizing your apps, a list of “top” iPhone developers, and an analysis of future opportunities, and this is an essential download.

In any case, the report is mostly high level stuff but it’s presented really well and actually makes for good reading (a shock, I know, given most reports!) – go get it!

0 responses to “The Amazing iPhone: An Easy-to-Read Report for iPhone Developers”

  1. RichardL says:

    I’m sorry. That report quotes Daniel Eran Dilger, throws around Apple’s meaningless 200,000,000 downloads numbers, and barely mentions the iPod Touch.

  2. Peter Cooper says:

    What’s wrong with Daniel Eran Dilger?

  3. Katie says:

    Yeah, what’s wrong with Daniel Eran Dilger? 😉

    @RichardL – The report aims to include official figures so the figures were checked against Apple press releases. However we aim to update the report in future and it will include the latest sales figures, more info on iPod Touch (sales figures weren’t available at time of writing), on new app trends. Also I’m often getting suggestions for more ‘hot developers’ which will be added as and when.

    @ Peter Cooper – As you mentioned it is relatively high level and is indeed aimed squarely at business owners – not developers (although the second report ‘The Making of Coffee Buzz’ offers more of a technical insight). We hope it helps strategists who need to convince those ‘bosses, clients and investors’ that the iPhone platform is worth exploring.

    Thanks for the review!

  4. John says:

    Strange that a UK based company doesn’t know where the UK is on the map – neither of the maps showing current or future iPhone “coverage” have the UK shaded green!

  5. RichardL says:

    > What’s wrong with Daniel Eran Dilger?

    With all due respect, I suggest you ask around.

  6. Peter Cooper says:

    That’s kinda what I was doing.