Thanks for your insights - but the main problem isn't for the app to make money, it is to generate calls to the call centre helping them grow their business. This is quite a challenge when users know they can get the answers they need in the iPhone app itself without calling the call centre for them..

Oh, I see! This is a real problem. Maybe the app could provide a neat user interface for framing a request, then send it as a text message to the call center, which then sends the answer back to the app.

I know this sounds contrived, but it seems to me the only way to not cannibalize the call centre is to not duplicate its functionality. The only thing left after taking the actual functionality away is the presentation, i.e. the user interface. So you can choose to use the call centre with the traditional interface (speaking on the phone) or the new app interface (that helps frame the question and later delivers the result).

Well it's a group effort - and when people get into it, it's hilarious. I've placed it into the Entertainment category rather than the Game category. Maybe that will help...

Just go to the App Store and buy a Binaural Beats app for a couple of bucks instead

Tell me about it! I live in Norway and I have no clue on how to approach this problem. My provisions on my few, simple apps is at about 2 000$ in six weeks. So I was just wondering.. Apple can't claim my proceeds for themselves because I haven't yet set up my tax and bank forms can they?

I think they just withhold paying you until your financial details are figured out.

I'm basically in the same boat as you... It's extremely frustrating to set up my financial info. I'm a coder, damnit!

Hahaha, yeah it's like: oh, wait a minute, I'll just get my economics degree and I'll be rrrright with you :P

So does anyone of you iPhone developers actually market your apps at all or do you just leave it to chance?

What are the possible ways of marketing an iPhone app?

Hehe, yeah - and () after writing stop or play

...have multiple heart attacks, male pattern baldness (the girls too) and eye cancer to boot :)

hahahahahaha :D made my night! thanks!

Raju: Hey! I've been developing on my 17" MacBook Pro for exactly a year now and I've got no complaints other than that sometimes I get eye fatigue if I work for extended periods of time on the 17" monitor, but then I just hook it up to my external monitor. Productivity wise I adore the Mac and the OS X Leopard. Previously I had been working on PC's using Windows XP and didn't really have all that much faith in Apple and their products, but once I tried the MB Pro and OS X I was immedeately hooked! And when I could run Windows on Parallels inside OS X for those apps that required this all my problems were solved and I can honestly say that my work experience has improved a lot. Hope this helps - and btw. I'm not a Apple "fanatic" :) Chris

innernode: Thanks for the response. I too was thinking of the 17" Pro, though I have to admit, plunking down $3000 for a laptop hurts a bit. Not to say I would not do it, but it just so happened that a friend of mine picked up the 13" Mac Book a few weeks ago, and although he does not spend a lot of time at home moonlighting, he says he loves it, and it would work for development purposes. Needless to say I was a little apprehensive, and figured this would be a good time to post the question.

I fully intend to use an external monitor anytime I am at my desk, so it was not the screen size that worried me a lot, rather it was performance, and the nagging feeling that the Mac Book was not designed keeping developers in mind.

Though again, thanks for the review. Every day I get closer to owning a Mac, and moving full time (atleast while working at home) on it. Hopefully "closer" is not too far away...

This kind of stuff is pretty neat when implemented in games - never seen an example that gave such a real life feeling though! Props!