> "I tried to make a living with a native desktop app - FOSS or proprietary - for Linux, but nobody seems to care and fewer would pay" And how is this differen

> "I tried to make a living with a native desktop app - FOSS or proprietary - for Linux, but nobody seems to care and fewer would pay" And how is this different for AppStore? More and more abandonware, and more and more cheap/freemium clones and garbage - noise to signal ratio is much lower than on say Linux. From a dev perspective, unlike a decade ago, now there's very little room to make any significant money just by building and selling simple desktop apps as indy dev. Now you need a SaaS, or some freemium upsell scam and a lot more marketing skills, plus Apple takes their share of every possible income channel you have and gives very little in return. That's at least my experience.