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52 times is the charm for Angry Birds
- aresant 16y agoBad journalism (yes, yes it's a blog, but still!): "The press has quoted one of the executives as saying that their characters will be bigger than Mickey Mouse - That is uncharacteristic statement by a company that is patient, persistent and focused on customers and the long-term" And yet, that's not the quote. The loosely attributable quote is of exec Peter Vesterbacka saying "We WANT to be bigger than Mickey Mouse." as validation for taking their huge round of funding. Key word for the article's analysis is "WANT". I'm calling it out here because even on the dailyartifacts site they originally got the quote right in a previous story: http://dailyartifacts.com/angry-birds-are-happy http://dailyartifacts.com/angry-birds-are-happy Original quote source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/angry-birds-developer-raises-42-166896 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/angry-birds-developer-...
- ianferrel 16y ago- 50% of developers earn less than $682 per year - $35,000 is average cost to develop an app - 51 years to break-even I wish I'd stop seeing this sort of statistical mangling.
- pchristensen 16y agoYeah, I'm pretty sure the mode and median cost to develop an app is $99 (for the Apple Developer program) since programmers can do it themselves. The $35K quote came from a guy that advised Fortune X companies (blanking on reference). These were big brands, big companies hiring agencies.
- delinka 16y agoNot to mention the boatload of crapps dragging down the financial success rate.
- cheez 16y agoNitpicks aside, I think the basic idea is spot on.
- pterry 16y agothanks -
- alanh 16y agoRehash of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314532 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314532 perhaps?