Car Locator developer chuffed with Google's apps store.
Independent developer Edward Kim says his Car Locator application is making $13,000 a month on Google's Android Market.
That's based on 70,000 downloads of the free version of the app, and 6,590 downloads of the paid version - which originally cost $1.99, but then went up to $3.99.
"The application was netting an average of about $80-$100/day, until it became a featured app on the Marketplace," blogs Kim. "Since then, sales have been phenomenal, netting an average of $435/day, with a one day record of $772 on Valentine's Day."
He also reports that even when he doubled the price of the app, the number of purchases didn't halve. "Android users appear to have a willingness to pay more than a couple dollars for apps," he writes.
Kim admits that Android piracy may be an increasing problem, but overall is hugely positive about Google's smartphone platform and its store.
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"I still think that Android is only a fraction of what it will eventually become. Each release of a new Android handset gets me excited, as it means a wider reach for the Marketplace."
Android Market has come in for a great deal of criticism in the last year, often from bigger application or game publishers. Only this week, Glu Mobile CEO Niccolo de Masi said the store "isn't monetising well", for example.
Kim's experience is the flipside of that - Android Market is clearly monetising very well indeed for him.
"Though my experiences are clearly not typical, I definitely think Android is the ideal platform to be in for an individual developer," he writes.
