Jobs interviewed by the Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the iTunes App Store has delivered over 60 million applications to customers in the first month of operations. Jobs commented that while most of those applications were free Apple has sold an average of $1 million a day for a total of $30 million in sales in the first month. Jobs said “I have never seen anything like this in my career for software.”
Some of the big winners include Sega’s Super Monkey Ball which had over 300,000 downloads. This represents over $2 million in revenue for this $9.99 game. Meanwhile, the popular medical reference Epocrates has seen over 125,000 downloads. This compares to the previously installed base of 500,000 on other mobile devices.
Jobs also addressed is the recent discussions regarding application removals confirming the ability for Apple to remotely disable an application. This may be of concern to some but is an important feature in the corporate market.
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