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neither of your points matters if you believe his assertion that (roughly) the 1000th most popular iPhone app generates 5x the revenue of the 100th most popular

• boucher 17y ago
  Not entirely a fair comparison. It's comparing shareware apps to the entire iPhone market. I'd venture to guess that nobody would call anything put out by Microsoft, Adobe, EA, or hundreds of other companies shareware, but those same companies are all in the same iPhone market.
• patio11 17y ago
  Having some knowledge of practical shareware economics, this seems to me to neglect that the 100th most popular Mac shareware app will have significant revenue next year barring black swans or the programmer removing it from the market, but the 1000th most popular iPhone app is at the mercy of a hideous sales trajectory. The main drivers of sales in shareware all get better with age, which is the exact opposite of the main drivers of sales in iPhone apps.