How successful have you been with the iPhone?

So you have to have a Mac in order to develop an app?
What about outsourcing the development? Tried that?

Gentlemen!

There is a LOT of money to be made IF you do this the RIGHT way. Like in all businesses / ventures .. you need to get it right. That is the secret.

So, i'm going to share a few pointers. Firstly, its very important to have a free version of your app along with the paid version (keep it at 99cents).

You are not late to the party on the app store, but there are many people already there who know what is working. So , you need to play your cards right or you will get frustrated and have to walk out of the game. Spend a lot of time seeing the apps on the store. There are a LOT of them. DONT copy or make twists of what exists. Come up with a truly UNIQUE name. Ofcourse you need to have a UNIQUE game concept / gameplay too (if you are making a game). If you are making an App - there's so much you can do.

About buying a Mac for development ... no you do NOT need to buy one. If you sign up at EDUmobile.ORG classes - you get remote access to Mac time. Also, there's an easy way to create the emulator on a dual core. Just look around . I wont tell

If you want to eventually publish your app via te appstore - then you need the official SDK and acceptance by the folks at Mac and it costs $100. You will need to buy a real Mac to sign your app and publish it when you are ready. Alternatively, go for a co-publishing deal with the guys at EDUmobile.ORG and you get to keep 80% of the revenues coming in not bad. No hassle.

Finally, again i must repeat - there is $$$ to be made - but you need to go about it in a clever manner and the folks at EDUmobile will give you plenty of tips once you graduate.

Ofcourse, if you want to start earning immediately - you can bid to win the large number of mushrooming iPhone project listings on sites like Elance and RentACoder.

All the best!

Here's a small scoop on EDUmobile.ORG ...

EDUmobile.ORG has launched an iPhone Development Online Course that teaches candidates via Online Video, PDF Documents, One-on-One sessions and Weekly Worksheets. There is also an option to access a remote Mac, for those who do not have access to one. Candidates get a certification on completion and an option to co-publish their first app on the Apple App Store where they get to keep 80% of the revenues.

There is a lot of buzz about some independent developers and newbies who have made between $100,000 to $500,000 by simply creating their first iPhone application and putting it up for sale on the online Apple Store.

Steve Demeter made a simple puzzle game called Trism, and in 2 months he earned $250,000. Last December the app called iFart became the number one app on the App Store. It stayed on the top and raked in $9200 each day in profit after Apple's cut. Then, Ethan Nicholas, developer of the now famous iShoot game, earns $21,000 per day selling his iPhone app. Ethan quit his day job to work full time on the iPhone and he did not even know how to write Objective-C code before he made iShoot.

These are just some of the stories that are causing a lot of buzz, and people have quit their day jobs to cash in on the opportunity.

However, developing for the iPhone is relatively a new field with a shortage of well structured tutorials and one-on-one mentorship and help. EDUmobile.ORG has been involved with online training in the wireless technology programming field and has launched its iPhone Online Course to meet the shortage of information resources and training.

The course is offered on a once a week basis via Online Video, PDF Documents, One-on-One sessions and Weekly Worksheets. There is also an option to access a remote Mac, for those who do not have access to one.

The iPhone course offered at EDUmobile.ORG is crafted to suite the industry need for beginner and intermediate level developers. After the course completion, developers will be able to create software for iPhone and can optionally distribute their content through EDUmobile.ORG on the online App Store, and immediately start earning. One can also bid to win the large number of growing projects being posted daily on project bidding sites like Elance and RentACoder.

The classes are taught as a combination of various online modules and you get the ability to work on live industry projects, along with an opportunity to be placed in top mobile gaming and mobile application development software companies. A certificate is also offered to all candidates once they complete the course.The Course duration for is between 4 to 12 weeks depending upon the developers past experience in programming.

For those who do not own a Mac, there is a facility offered to remotely login to access a Mac to carry out your programming from a normal PC connected to the Internet. Thus, one does not need to purchase or own a Mac. The cost for the entire course is $200, and you can optionally avail of a facility to pay in 3 easy installments. Available slots are fast filling up. Please visit the iPhone page on EDUmobile to sign up.

Forgot to mention as well if you do have any ObjectiveC knowledge you might be interested in this web framework which uses ObjectiveJ (basically ObjC syntax wrapped around javascript) to create really funky web apps which you *could* use to build an iphone app.

check it out Cappuccino Web Framework - Build Desktop Class Applications in Objective-J and JavaScript