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>>The greatest support for my thesis is that there are not yet any third party companies that have made a huge amount of money on the iPhone.<< That's his "gre
by brisance 16y ago
>>The greatest support for my thesis is that there are not yet any third party companies that have made a huge amount of money on the iPhone.<<
That's his "greatest support" for his thesis? Apple claims to have paid out US$1 billion to developers so far, what about Android Marketplace? During Steve Jobs's WWDC keynote speech, he quoted Theo Gray: "I earned more on sales of The Elements for iPad in the first day than from the past 5 years of Google ads on periodictable.com".
So if going by commercial success is the yardstick, then the App Store is ahead by at least 1825 times.
- adriand 16y agoHis point stands: he's not talking about the total amount of money everyone has made, but the total amount of money any single company has made.
- brisance 16y agoAnd my point is: there are media reports of individuals and small companies that have made a decent amount of money on the App Store, but there is no simply equivalence that I'm aware of on Android. If these entities are considered "small potatoes" then the situation is even worse on Android. Glass houses, and all that.