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Appillionaires: They Made Millions on the App Store. Could you?
Get advice from the pros and turn your app ideas into millions of dollars. Enter the secret world of the Appillionaires, an exclusive club of the world’s most successful iPhone and iPad developers.
Appillionaires explores the stories and wild personalities behind hundreds of successful apps including Whale Trail, Cut the Rope, World of Goo, Tiny wings and Pocket God.
This book is packed with exclusive interviews with the world’s top iPhone app creators:
• Meet the submarine commander who programs hit apps in his spare time.
• Meet the two brothers from Croatia who grew up to sell over ten million copies of their homemade iPhone game Doodle Jump.
• Get tips from the husband and wife team from Washington DC who made millions with their 99¢ App, Harbor Master – all based on an idea they came up with on a sailing trip.
• Discover how the journey to Angry Birds almost bankrupted the company that created it. And much, much more...
You’ll hear directly from these visionaries and many others, learning their techniques first-hand. The Appillionaires’ world is a weird and wonderful place where bedroom coders turn into millionaires overnight. It’s a land where teenage code-monkeys flirt with venture capital and the good die young, iPhones in hand.
• Learn how to structure your creative process based on the stories of the Appillionaires who made a fortune.
• Get professional tips on how to build excitement around your app launch.
• Explore real-world case studies where bedroom programmers have gone on to become millionaires.
• Take a glimpse behind the curtain and discover what really goes on behind the scenes of the App Store.
Written by journalist and Kirkus Star Award-winning author, Chris Stevens, Appillionaires exposes the real story behind the software on your iPhone. Chris is the designer behind the global smash app Alice for the iPad and has personally shipped over 500,000 apps. Chris has used his close relationships in the industry to gain unprecedented access to the geniuses behind the apps you love.
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Have been interested in computers most of my life, and am a self-admitted Apple Fan Boy, so when I had the chance to read this book, I was excited.
This book covers what it has taken to become a millionaire through the sale of apps on the Apple Store (clue- don't hold your breath). It does cover it well, but it does have a couple flaws-
-If you were looking to try and become a millionaire from making Apps, this book will not help. It is a collection of some well told anecdotes, which will not help you at all., just keep you amused for a couple hours.
- The font is so small! I had to hold the book close to my face to read it- even with my glasses on.
To be honest , it is the font size which has lost it a couple marks; I find it ironic that a book which tells you about design and high standards (and luck) should fail because of such a basic design flaw. The content, although interesting, is really let down by this simple error. Shame.
This book covers what it has taken to become a millionaire through the sale of apps on the Apple Store (clue- don't hold your breath). It does cover it well, but it does have a couple flaws-
-If you were looking to try and become a millionaire from making Apps, this book will not help. It is a collection of some well told anecdotes, which will not help you at all., just keep you amused for a couple hours.
- The font is so small! I had to hold the book close to my face to read it- even with my glasses on.
To be honest , it is the font size which has lost it a couple marks; I find it ironic that a book which tells you about design and high standards (and luck) should fail because of such a basic design flaw. The content, although interesting, is really let down by this simple error. Shame.
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I was expecting this book to be more around the technical development of Apps for the various iDevices around. To some degree it is, but the main focus is in three sections - the birth of the App, the appillionaires, and the future of Apps.
I found the history/birth of the App section to be fascinating, I know a fair bit about the hacking scene of the iPhones and the jail breaking of the devices but found a good few nuggets in the book.
These chapters focus on how Apple did not want to have third party applications on it's devices initially, so the hacking community created their own App store (Cydia - which is still going strong today) to offer functionality and features that the phone did not. The success of Cydia directly led Apple to begin to create it's own App Store via iTunes. The rest as they say, is history and also a massive success.
The next part focuses on some well known apps, their creators, and their. Most people will have heard of Harbour Master, Doodle Jump, Pocket God and Angry Birds but most people will not realise for example that 52 games were failures before Angry Birds hit the big time.
This section is well written and stresses both the importance of hard work, development and luck as major factors as well as technical skill. It also shows how good marketing can prolong the life of a successful product by avoiding saturation.
The final (and smallest) section is around the difficulties of producing an App - $15 - $50,000 for a simple App being an example. There is an interesting debate on the pricing of Apps and why 99 cents may not be the best price point. There is also the future of Apps and how the market is likely to progress.
The author created and sold a successful App (Alice for iPad) which I downloaded on the strength of this book. I found the App to be terrible (3 stars average, out of 19 reviews) however that may just be me! The book was a far better success in my opinion. It is well written, has a lot of relevant research and the author knows his subject matter and presents it in an informative and amusing way.
My main criticism is that the book is not a long read at 200 pages and I just wanted more from it! It's a good read and recommended for anyone with an interest in Apps, Apple or just how the market has progressed. 4 stars due to the length of the book though
I found the history/birth of the App section to be fascinating, I know a fair bit about the hacking scene of the iPhones and the jail breaking of the devices but found a good few nuggets in the book.
These chapters focus on how Apple did not want to have third party applications on it's devices initially, so the hacking community created their own App store (Cydia - which is still going strong today) to offer functionality and features that the phone did not. The success of Cydia directly led Apple to begin to create it's own App Store via iTunes. The rest as they say, is history and also a massive success.
The next part focuses on some well known apps, their creators, and their. Most people will have heard of Harbour Master, Doodle Jump, Pocket God and Angry Birds but most people will not realise for example that 52 games were failures before Angry Birds hit the big time.
This section is well written and stresses both the importance of hard work, development and luck as major factors as well as technical skill. It also shows how good marketing can prolong the life of a successful product by avoiding saturation.
The final (and smallest) section is around the difficulties of producing an App - $15 - $50,000 for a simple App being an example. There is an interesting debate on the pricing of Apps and why 99 cents may not be the best price point. There is also the future of Apps and how the market is likely to progress.
The author created and sold a successful App (Alice for iPad) which I downloaded on the strength of this book. I found the App to be terrible (3 stars average, out of 19 reviews) however that may just be me! The book was a far better success in my opinion. It is well written, has a lot of relevant research and the author knows his subject matter and presents it in an informative and amusing way.
My main criticism is that the book is not a long read at 200 pages and I just wanted more from it! It's a good read and recommended for anyone with an interest in Apps, Apple or just how the market has progressed. 4 stars due to the length of the book though
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Appilionaires is an easy enough read and quite interesting for those interested in developing Apps, have a dead good idea and want to find out how others hit the big time (perhaps to learn from their mistakes and read some short-cuts).
So what do you get for your money? It's spilt into 3 sections - each of a few chapters each.
The first section deals with Apps from their first inception, through bedroom developers to millionaire developers. This I found interesting as I'd not really read much on the history of app development before.
The second setion goes through 5 mega games (Doodle jump, Harbor Master, Pocket God, Stick Wars and Angry Birds- basically what the game is like, the story of its development, marketing problems/successes and finally its hitting the big time. For me this was the best part of the book - I was really interested in the trials and tribulations of a developer (having worked in I.T. as a software developer myself).
The last section gets back on track with teh first section - where the App market is at the moment and what might it's future developments be like.
An interesting book, had its highs and lows but failed to deliver on really inspiring me to write my own apps. Maybe I just haven't got what it takes?!
So what do you get for your money? It's spilt into 3 sections - each of a few chapters each.
The first section deals with Apps from their first inception, through bedroom developers to millionaire developers. This I found interesting as I'd not really read much on the history of app development before.
The second setion goes through 5 mega games (Doodle jump, Harbor Master, Pocket God, Stick Wars and Angry Birds- basically what the game is like, the story of its development, marketing problems/successes and finally its hitting the big time. For me this was the best part of the book - I was really interested in the trials and tribulations of a developer (having worked in I.T. as a software developer myself).
The last section gets back on track with teh first section - where the App market is at the moment and what might it's future developments be like.
An interesting book, had its highs and lows but failed to deliver on really inspiring me to write my own apps. Maybe I just haven't got what it takes?!
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I managed to read this in three hours. It's more like a power point presentation then the book i expected however it does have some interesting points of note. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Flying sleuth
Interesting insight into the world of apps, though somewhat...
As a part time app developer, I thought this would be a very interesting read. To hear from someone who has managed to have a hit app could be potentially very enlightening. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Steven Brown
Gentle introduction
Although I have been interested in computers for nearly 30 years I have never taken much interest in mobile phone technology. Read more
Published 3 months ago by T. S. Ward
A good overview of the App Store and your very slim chances of making...
"Appillionaires" is a pretty good introduction to the world of the App Store, from a developer's point of view. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. Stuart Bruce
stories from some of the big app makers
This is a tricky one. I wanted it to be more than it actually was, but still enjoyed reading it.
What I liked:
Well laid out style with a summary at the end of each... Read more
What I liked:
Well laid out style with a summary at the end of each... Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. J. Parkes
A slightly misleading title
Chris Stevens' "Appillionaires" (dreadful made-up word!) purports to be "Secrets from developers who struck it rich on the App Store", which to me carries the clear implication... Read more
Published 3 months ago by S. P. Long
Not many secrets
The sub title for this book is "Secrets from Developers who struck it rich on the app store" but I did not see much of the secrets. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dave
Readable book - no quite what the title implies
This is a good book, by an actual app developer.
The content is broken up into chapters covering the launch of the iPhone and then every chapter covers an app that has made it... Read more
The content is broken up into chapters covering the launch of the iPhone and then every chapter covers an app that has made it... Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. I. Mackenzie
Interesting read
I wont state what everyone else has already. The content of the book is fine and covers a lot of successful apps. What I will say is that the book has been produced horribly. Read more
Published 4 months ago by AM
Short, light on detail, but of some interest still
An obvious read for someone who plays some mobile games and has written a couple of in-house test apps, I was hoping to get some real advice on how successful developers got their... Read more
Published 4 months ago by David Burton
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