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Opening up the platform ruins it. The walled garden is exactly why iPhones are so popular and iOS developers so successful.
by valuearb 6y ago
Opening up the platform ruins it. The walled garden is exactly why iPhones are so popular and iOS developers so successful.
- _qulr 6y agoiOS developers are not successful in general. The top 1% of App Store developers make the vast majority of the App Store revenue. Apple doesn't seem to care, because they get their 30% regardless of how the other 70% of the revenue is distributed.
- valuearb 6y agoiOS App Developers make around $35B a year. I don’t directly get paid much by it anymore because I shut down my App company. But I have made a very good contracting rate and very high salaries for iOS development directly because of that $35B. Your own app company doesn’t have to be a winner, when the winners need a massive number of developers and have such a fountain of cash to pay them with.
- _qulr 6y ago> Your own app company doesn’t have to be a winner, when the winners need a massive number of developers and have such a fountain of cash to pay them with. I agree that the walled garden tends to create a few huge winners among App Store developers, and mostly losers among the other App Store developers. I don't think this situation is healthy, even if the few winners need a lot of engineers.
- scarface74 6y agoIf it is caused by the App Store, why do we see the same distribution in every single vertical where there is a platform?
- _qulr 6y agoWe don't. For example, Mac software before the Mac app store had a much better distribution.
- scarface74 6y agoI’ve been around the Mac market off an on since the 90s. You had a few small software vendors that could make a living but not really. But you see the same distribution in music, books, podcasts, etc.
- scarface74 6y agoThe same is true for musicians, book publishers, and developers on every single platform.