Very, very biased article: - What about you divide the prices you mention by the number of people required to make the product. An app developper's team is oft

Very, very biased article: - What about you divide the prices you mention by the number of people required to make the product. An app developper's team is often less than 5 people. Apple's iphone team is probably more than 150 people including all the overhead. Well make the math, you'll see that developers are pretty well off, thanks. - It's already been mentioned but there are heavy costs involved in both the creation of the device, and the Network. These overhead costs have to be included in the price. - And finally, it's still the law of the market. If these prices weren't right, you can be sure that they would change. Why do developers keep doing what they do if the pay is shitty as you seem to imply? Well they do it maybe because it's actually not all that bad. Maybe they do it because that's a relatively easy way to monetize the great skills they have (no need to build a company, blabla.. you make a great app, you sell it). Oh, and by easy I don't mean that anybody could do it, far from it. I'm just saying that for a guy incredibly gifted like some of these developers, creating apps is probably a much better deal than having a regular job.