iPhone app developers: Start your engines

6 million iphones sold already, Apple expecting to sell 15 million in the next year, 21 million potential customers in the next 12 months.
If your worried you can't sell 359 apps at 99 cents then I suspect your app is not worth uploading to the store in the first place.
With the size of the market (growing at a rapid rate) and ease of purchase, any useful app at a fair price will sell big time.

It is shameful on Steve if he takes $99 and doesn't give it back to developers at the earliest. If he wants to encourage developers, he should apply this $250 withholding only for enterprise customers (who paid $250 in the first place). For individual developers, $99 or $50 withholding is appropriate.

Don't get too greedy, Steve. We love you but we expect the love back too.

"Pissed off" developer.

Ok Miss Sadun.
You're out of the Program, you deceptive iPhone Hacker extraordinaire. :-)

It'll lead to more free apps though..

Sell for $.99 - get paid nothing
Sell for free - get paid nothing

I've got a few app ideas I thought I might stick a minimal $.99 charge on.. they're not exactly world class ideas and probably aren't worth more than that, but I thought I might get my $99 back eventally. Won't bother now.. not worth it TBH.

Kinda sounds like a way for Jobs to weasel out of the "Monthly Check" promise. They need to lower the minimum payment amount to $50 like most affiliate payments.

I would have to say that on any given day of the week, the company I work for sells about 70 to 80 units. This number is totally not official and is based on me remembering what the sales numbers look like when I punch them in.

This is software that users will be paying 19.95 to 29.95 for. It is also software that will be available on the iPhone, for a price that we totally don't know yet, and if I did know I wouldn't say.

Granted, we're also kind of a 'big shot' in our field compared to Some Random Person Who Wrote An App In His Spare Time. Big shot is relative; we're not Adobe or Microsoft or SAP or something Fortune 500 or 1000 or whatever.

that seems a little rediculous.

For exampleif a hobbyist just builds an app for fun and intends on ceeling it for 99 cents. He might never get paid. There should be an option of how often developers are paid

So if you make an app that costs $1 you won't see a penny even if 359 people buy it? I mean, I know that's not enough to make a living, but for an in-your-spare-time app it's probably acceptable returns on a hobby.