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...Steve Sheraton, the magician behind Las Vegas-based Hottrix, a magic and special-effects shop that developed another (apparent) 2008 top seller, iBeer, said dropping the price on his app may have been a mistake. "I'm not selling more at $0.99 than I was at $2.99," he said of the entertaining little app that simulates a glass of beer: put the phone to your lips, tip it and you can "swallow" the beer. He dropped the price as part of a presidential sale on Election Day but said he'll raise it again soon to test his theory. Sheraton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Best-Selling iPhone App? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Indeed, iBeer's creator, Sheraton, said he's seen it all before, on the old Palm Pilot platform. His first app was E-spresso, in 1999, which created a virtual cup of espresso on the Palm, the first great PDA. "Having lived through the Palm apps market, I was able to predict what would happen here as well," he said. "There are way too many apps, and the prices will drop through the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Best-Selling iPhone App? | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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