From GigaOm today:

The iPhone App Store is red hot: In its first month, more than 60 million software programs were downloaded, and it generated about $1 million a day in sales. That information comes from Steve Jobs in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. In his interview, Jobs says the developers took home $21 million in the first month, of which $9 million went to the top 10 developers. One of the biggest selling app: Sega Corp’s $9.99 Super Monkeyball game, which sold more than 300,000 copies in 20 days. (iPhone as a gaming platform isn’t such a crazy idea after all!)…

That is a lot of Monkeyball!

The best way to get custom ringtones to your iPhone is still the DJ Nitrogen Ringtone Lab at http://www.djnitrogen.com/iphonedownload.html
Unlimited ringtones, sync’d throught iTunes for one low price.

This was reported today by Tech Crunch:

“Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics giant that produces the iPhone 3G for Apple, has ramped up production to 800,000 units per week, says a source close to Apple with direct knowledge of the numbers. This is “above current full capacity” and there may be some concerns with quality control.

Apple sold just 6 million of its first generation iPhones.

Foxconn factories will be able to ramp production up significantly over time, says our source. But at current sell rates, the company is producing iPhones at a run rate of over 40 million units per year, well beyond early estimates of demand for the product of 25 million over the 3G product lifecycle.

Apple is continuing to add countries - the iPhone is available in 23 countries today, and another 50 will be added this year. We’ve heard that Foxconn was initially told to expect sales of up to 40 million units in the first year, but that those numbers are being revised upwards sharply.

About 1 billion mobile phones were sold worldwide in 2007, says Gartner (Nokia sold about 435 million of them).”

You probably saw a story like this last week (the link above is to DailyTech.com). Unfortunately, many in the mobile content market are doing their customers a serious disservice - they see them as targets, rather than customers.

At DJ Nitrogen, we don’t hide our service pricing deep in the fine print. It’s right where you can see it, which we think is a much better way to treat our customers.

Peter Gabriel’s music, movie, tv and video recommendation site is now in a public beta. There are lots of interesting ways to tweak your personalized filter, the recommendation engine behind the service.

For music, songs are limited to 30 seconds, so unlike a service like Pandora, the Filter is focusing on just recommending music you may not own.

Its probably too early to tell, but as they add more content, this could be a good way to learn about new music and videos.

Dr Erik Fransen, of the University of Antwerp in Belgium, one of the lead researchers, said that the ability to pick out high frequency sounds was damaged in smokers and the obese, although to not as great an extent as those exposed to very loud noise in the workplace.

He said: “The hearing loss is proportional to how much you smoke and your body mass index (BMI).

“It starts getting worse once you have smoked regularly for more than one year.”

He said that, unlike some parts of the body, once damage had occurred, there was no prospect of recovery.

“Once the damage is done, it’s done. It does not repair.”

“Apple is currently in talks with record labels about mobile music, reports the New York Times.

“Several label executives” have apparently confirmed that Apple has approached some of the major music companies to try and expand its music available to the iPhone direct, and to other mobiles, via iTunes.

Apple is said to want to offer more ringtones and also “answer tones” [ringback tones] that are described as customised sounds that a caller hears instead of the usual ringing sound.”

Will this be ready by the June announcement? I don’t think so….