To Revitalize iPhone App Sales, Get T-Mobile And Dana Carvey To Pimp A Copycat Android App
Here’s a quirky story: Israeli iPhone app dev house ApParty released an app back in December 2008 called iFog (iTunes link).
The premise being that the user selects a photo which then has a steam effect superimposed upon it. The steam can be wiped away by running a finger over the screen surface. Blowing on the iPhone microphone fogs the screen back up.
Cute. Simple. And lucrative—it was bought 200,000 times for $0.99 a pop.
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