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(Android) Developer Income Report #8
- kreci 16y agoComments welcome and very desired =)
- tomjen3 16y agoI must say I was pleasantly surprised by how good your English have become. Oh and keep the updates coming - it is very encouraging and good for the ecosystem itself.
- kreci 16y agoThanks! Good to hear that!
- bemmu 16y agoIt was a good idea to link to another developer's report from your post. It will encourage more people to report on their progress.
- nethsix 16y agoIn a world where there is so much hyperbole in articles, thanks for an honest-to-goodness report on Android development.
- kreci 16y agoThank you too for your kind words ;)
- csomar 16y agoThanks for the slap. I'm carrying on work, you convinced me again that making money is possible and it's just my laziness that is keeping me poor.
- bstar 16y agoSo are we now encouraging mobile developers to try and develop many crap applications, the sum of which will give an impressive financial return? What happened to concept of developing a great product that actually takes some effort? It seems to me that these developers are spreading themselves extremely thin to get many apps into the marketplace with the h̶o̶p̶e̶ prayer that some catch on. Imo, this is a crappy business model which just pollutes the marketplace. I know the goal/dream is to become self sufficient and control your own destiny, but do it with a great product that you believe in, not with bs e-books and movie quote soundboards.
- cosgroveb 16y agoI'm happy for kreci that he is able to make enough money online to support himself but the apps are just dismal. That combined with the made-for-Adsense site he showed us a few days ago (which he claimed to have paid for 100 backlinks to!) shows that he's adding very little value to the Android ecosystem and the web. His income reports are valuable because they can be an inspiration to others but the way he is making his money is, at the very least, distasteful.
- roel_v 16y agoIt's the behavior that cheapskates and pirates make the system gravitate towards. There's nothing wrong or dishonorable about it. Incentives at work people - nothing new to see here.
- moomba 16y agoNot really. Apparently you ate not aware that paid apps are not available in Poland. Kind of hard to make a great product when you cab only make money off ads.
- chc 16y agoCreating a "great" product that you attach yourself to regardless of its lack of revenue seems to me to require a lot more hope and prayer than keeping a diverse portfolio of apps in niches that have proven attractive to consumers. You appear to be criticizing KreCi for not being Michelangelo when his aspiration is just to be the neighborhood pest control guy.
- zdw 16y agoSo, the one guy's only really revenue generating app is an unlicensed Star Wars app that sounds like a ripoff of similar iOS "lightsaber" apps that were first unlicensed then became licensed? Count me not impressed.
- wewyor 16y agoThat is another person used as an example in the post that he isn't the only one making such money on android.