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This Is Why iPhone Developers Put Up With All the Bullshit From Apple
- Psyonic 18y agoThat is some crazy shit
- geuis 18y agoI know Steve. He's a great guy. Has known my roommate for about 4 years.
- Audacitor 18y agoThat right there almost makes me wanna buy a new iPhone just for it. Almost. While the iPhone certainly gives game developers entirely new game control dimensions to work with, it's still too expensive in my books. As for the iPod touch, I'm just waiting for them to pack in enough storage for my whole library, and then I'm there.
- dhimes 18y agoMy wife and my son has one, and I have the same AT&T service on a Razr. I get far better reception. Their calls drop ALOT--way more than I could tolerate. The other features work pretty well, but it seems the iphone is good at everything except being a phone.
- stcredzero 18y agoI have to say, I'm an iPhone user living in Houston, Texas, and AT&T was just a little worse than my former carrier during normal times, but now that we're on a disaster recovery footing, their service stinks! Even two days before the storm, EGDE was unavailable for me to get traffic info like I always get before my return commute. There were also lots of dropped calls, calls whose service degraded until I couldn't understand what the other party was saying, and missed calls that never rang even though I had my phone. The only thing that kept reasonable service consistently throughout was SMS text. I guess that's to be expected during times like this.
- viae 18y agoIt's all those Texas mountains blocking the signal. What I really want is the ipod touch with GPS and force feedback for the keyboard. That's the killer device I'm waiting for Apple to bring to market. I don't want to pay "upkeep" for a portable usually-connected-online device.
- pxlpshr 18y agoIt's a problem for every carrier.. I've been trying to call my friends on t-mobile and sprint, and have received the same issues. (I live in Austin, family in houston)
- josefresco 18y agoHow much did it cost to make? I think with Android the 'pond' will be much larger and will make $250K look quaint.
- iron_ball 18y agoSo Android phones are going to outsell iPhones?
- stcredzero 18y agoIf everyone adopts Android, then sure!
- jcl 18y agoIt's a tough call, but note that the iPhone is not the smartphone market leader -- Blackberry is. Android could outsell iPhones solely by cannibalizing Blackberry sales, although it obviously has other opportunities: Windows mobile users, Palm users, people who want something like the iPhone but don't want to switch to AT&T, etc.
- pchristensen 18y agopeople who want something like the iPhone but don't want to switch to AT&T That's gotta be the first big target. I'm on USCellular + iPod Touch for that very reason.
- cstejerean 18y agoI'm confused, why would you pick US Cellular over AT&T?
- pchristensen 18y agoCheaper plans, better coverage (in Chicago suburbs), friendlier salespeople, better contract terms, lower cancellation fee, etc.
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- utnick 18y agoIt might be like facebook apps at the begginning, they were new and cool so alot of people browsed the app directory and since there were few apps, new apps could be noticed and grew As the app store grows, it might be much harder if your app is buried in the app store somewhere to draw these kinds of sales. But maybe the app store will accomodate this somehow.
- pxlpshr 18y agoWhile there is a lot of clutter on the app store with Tip calculators and so forth, there is a sharp difference between fB and iPhone platforms. to develop for Facebook, you can use anything. to develop for the iPhone, you need a Mac. That said, let's compare PC vs. Mac market share. :)
- tlrobinson 18y agoTrism is currently the 63rd top selling iPhone game. Granted the "top apps" seem to be heavily weighted towards recently popular applications, but let's do a little "fuzzy" math: Assuming the price has remained constant and $250k is the figure before Apple takes their cut, $250,000 divided by the $5 unit price is approximately 50,000 units sold. Trism has about 400 reviews, which means about 1 in 120 users actually reviewed it. Assuming apps with similar price and rating get approximately the same number of reviews per units sold (a big assumption, but this is fuzzy math...) we can extrapolate sales for other apps. App Cost Rating Reviews Revenue ----------------- ---- ------ ------- ------- Asphalt 4 $10 4 ~1000 ~$1.2 million Crash Bandicoot $10 4 ~1200 ~$1.4 million Super Monkey Ball $10 3.5 ~2900 ~$3.5 million I would guess that apps with lower ratings have a higher ratio of reviews to sales (dissatisfied customers are more likely to voice their opinion), so these estimates are probably on the high side. Still, I think it's pretty clear that there are iPhone apps that have made millions of dollars.
- pchristensen 18y agoI'm a happy customer of A4 and CB, and I'd love to spend $10-20 on more games of that caliber.