Cut the Rope - first place in the Android Market. How much is earned?

Russian game Cut the Rope just a week after the release under Android won the first place in the list of paid Android Market applications . This is a great success for domestic developers who have made one of the most successful game projects in the global mobile market. In the AppStore, the game is in fifth place among paid applications , and in terms of growth it overtook the Angry Birds chart. The first million downloads took place only on the ninth day after the release, which is a record for paid games in the AppStore .

By the way, the publisher of Cut the Rope is the British company Chillingo - the same as that of Angry Birds.

If someone does not know, the plot of the game is based on cutting the rope so that the lollipop gets into the mouth of the hungry monster Om Nom (Om Nom). A rope is cut with just a finger on the touchscreen.
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The newspaper "Vedomosti" is trying to estimate how much money the studio ZeptoLab has already earned. The game appeared on October 4, 2010 in the AppStore, and by July 9, 2011 there were 45 million downloads, including 9 million of the paid version (price $ 0.99 for iPhone, $ 1.99 in HD version for iPad). According to independent estimates, developers get 21-35% of this money, everything else goes to Apple and the publisher. Specifically, Apple takes 30% of the revenue, and the publisher takes another 50-70% of the rest. Thus, in the AppStore, the company earned approximately from $ 1.89 million to $ 3.15 million.

In the Android Market, the studio receives a full-fledged 71% of sales, because it works without a publisher. Google does not show the number of downloads, assessing it currently in the range of 50,000-100,000 (price $ 0.99). Judging by the results of competitors, by the end of July it is quite realistic to reach $ 1 million in revenue, excluding Google's commission. At least, this is how much the game brought Paradise Island in a month, according to Alisa Chumachenko, the general director of Game Insight game studio.

One can only guess how much Aleksey Pajitnov would have earned if he had invented a Tetris not now in 1984, but now.