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Another (of what must now be well into the thousands) App Store piece that basically boils down to : The App Store is a maturing market and if you expect to mak
by stevetrewick 11y ago
Another (of what must now be well into the thousands) App Store piece that basically boils down to : The App Store is a maturing market and if you expect to make money from developing apps then you need an actual business plan including sustainable revenue models and marketing strategies. Just like any other business.
For some reason this makes the author sad.
- braythwayt 11y agoWhat makes the author said is the specific nature of the sustainable revenue models and marketing strategies. The metaphor from the article works just fine. Once upon a time toys were wooden and passed down from generation to generation. They were made by local craftspeople. Now that is a niche within a niche. It’s perfectly ok to feel sad about that time passing. We don’t have to choose to also feel sad, but there’s absolutely zero wrong with the author’s sadness, and it’s not a particularly difficult thing to understand.
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- cwyers 11y agoThe real problem is that the App Store favors some business plans (like free games that use a Skinner box mentality to get you to make lots of in-app purchases) and disallows others, like apps that charge for major version upgrades.