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iOS 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, b
by _qulr 6y ago
iOS 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.