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Consider that there are 400k active apps on the Android Market. Apple is about the same. That's not a lot of money earned per app. Many developers haven't put
by orbitingpluto 15y ago
Consider that there are 400k active apps on the Android Market. Apple is about the same.
That's not a lot of money earned per app.
Many developers haven't put a lot of money in, but they have put in a lot of time!
If every app only took 1 developer 1 day to make, that's still ~1/4 minimum wage.
Edit: I'm not suggesting min. wage for indy smartphone devs. I'm just noticing a discrepancy and strongly keeping in mind that the existence of hundreds of thousands of applications is used by Apple & Android marketing departments all the time.
- polemic 15y agoTrue, but not all developer days are created equally :D
- funkah 15y agoWell, maybe that's the market saying they don't really want or need your app. A tough lesson to learn, but there's no reason to assume that the world wants something just because you took the time to build it.
- orbitingpluto 15y agoWell that went unnecessarily ad hominem. A harder lesson to learn is that 250,000 users don't make you a lot of money.
- funkah 15y agoSorry, I didn't mean "you" "you", I meant "one" "you".
- orbitingpluto 15y agofunkah: I assumed. Please excuse the obtuse sense of humor. I was just trying to stress that a modicum of success writing apps doesn't necessarily pay out that well. (I've avoided some of the more distasteful privacy-agnostic and annoy-ware revenue streams however.)
- gawker 15y agoIt's not a lot of money earned per app but good apps have been able to achieve decent success. There's no reason why the hardware manufacturers should ensure every single developer that signs up makes a decent living. Make an app, market it well and you may well be rewarded.
- aiscott 15y agoYou can spend a lot of time digging a hole in the ground. Spending a lot of time on a project is not sufficient in and of itself to create wealth.