Ethan Nicholas used to work for Sun Microsystems. That was, until he whipped up a little iPhone game called iShoot in his spare time. Now, he doesnāt work for Sun anymore, because heās filthy rich.
Unlike other major platforms (ie anything run by Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo), Appleās App Store for the iPhone (and iPod Touch) lets developers keep a reasonable share of the profits of a game. So when iShoot quickly shot to the top of the storeās games charts, Nicholas was in line to make a lot of cash.
How much cash? At the moment, heās averaging a take of, oh, $37,000. A day. Thatās over $600,000 to date.
āIām not going to be a millionaire in the next month, but Iād be shocked if it didnāt happen at the end of the year,ā he told Wired. āIf it werenāt for taxes I would be a millionaire right nowā.
Coderās Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On [Wired]
