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Apple is making money off of the developers. That registration fee 8x more than the average one will ever make. And that money has been side funnelled into som
by orbitingpluto 15y ago
Apple is making money off of the developers. That registration fee 8x more than the average one will ever make.
And that money has been side funnelled into something far more lucrative - infrastructure for distributing books and movies.
- aaronblohowiak 15y agoReviewers are expensive.
- AllenKids 15y agoWhat? Your math seems wrong. The registration fee is $99, Apple has paid out $4 billion as of February this year, and there are ~.25 million registered iOS developers in US, let's be generous and say there are 1M registered developers worldwide. It still averages out $4K pay out per registered developer. How can you use the $12 per iOS device app revenue to extrapolate average developers' income is totally beyond me.
- orbitingpluto 15y agoOh wow my math is wrong. Also 25 billion downloads across 315 million devices is frightening. Each device has downloaded almost 80 apps? http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/03/app-store-25-billion/ http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/03/app-store-25-billion/ (And thanks for correcting me on the reg fee. I thought it was $200 for some reason.)
- signalsignal 15y agoHow is it frightening?