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Some notes, on why I think your calculation while interesting, is way off: 1. You shouldn't consider summer 2008 as epoch. 2. Not all of those $4B were paid t
by pooriaazimi 15y ago
Some notes, on why I think your calculation while interesting, is way off:
1. You shouldn't consider summer 2008 as epoch.
2. Not all of those $4B were paid to US developers (I'd guess less than 60% of that)
3. A huge number of apps (thousands) on the App Store are free (from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Zynga, ...) - For all we know, all such free apps have been created by a team of 10-15 iOS developers/testers/etc.
I'm also skeptical about the claim, but I think that your calculation wasn't a good one.
- b0sk 15y agoWell. in actuality the $4B is paid according to Pareto distribution ( Pareto principle). That means a small chunk of developers with highly successful apps are going to get a large chunk of that $4B. This makes Apple's claim actually worse.