Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

The developer of iFart Mobile for the iPhone and iPod Touch is making money hand over fist:

Fart, therefore I am (the #1 iPhone app).  Or something like that.  iFart is fast becoming one of the most popular iPhone/iPod Touch applications out there.  The developer of iFart, Joel Comm, has been pretty forthcoming with sales figures, and on his blog he noted that over Christmas Eve and Christmas day, more than 58,000 people purchased a copy of iFart, netting him over $40,000 dollars in just two days.

iFart, as the name suggests, is a $.99 novelty iPhone app that plays a wide variety of fart sounds.  It was initially released on December 12th, and has since skyrocketed up the app store charts, and is now the #1 paid program in the app store.  In the two weeks following its release, it’s been downloaded 113,865 times, netting the creators $78,908 in the process.  78 grand is higher than the average income per capita for every country in the world – and this guy surpassed that in two weeks.  Incredible.

I did a full (and I hope funny) review of it for my iPhone Software Reviews Blog. It’s a hilarious app. I’ve grossed out a few people with it. It’s great for dinner parties. Put your iPhone on your lap while seated at the table and make it fart every once in a while. Your friends will get a good laugh once they realize that it’s not actually somebody farting in the middle of dinner. Heh.

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