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iOS app success is pretty much guaranteed - if you're smart enough to take your skills and start selling them at market rate to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who w
by gyardley 15y ago
iOS app success is pretty much guaranteed - if you're smart enough to take your skills and start selling them at market rate to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who wants to hit the iOS lottery.
In a gold rush, the guys who do the best are the ones selling picks.
- evilduck 15y agoSelling your time and skills isn't selling pickaxes. That's just offering to dig for gold at a cost above what you'll find when you dig.
- incomethax 15y agoExactly. In the app gold rush, the ones selling pickaxes are Apple and Google with iOS and Android.
- evilduck 15y agoOr writing books, holding seminars, training sessions, selling development tools, etc. RubyMotion is a great recent pickaxe example. Write for the App Store using Ruby for only $150 now or $200 later! Buy Now!
- cageface 15y agoI have two iPad music apps in the store that both had long stints in the "what's hot" section and one was as high as #13 in the US music category and #7 in the UK. When I consider how much time they took to write I would have been much, much better off spending that time on oDesk contracts at $20/hr, and don't even talk about what I could have made on a real developers salary in that time. Selling your own apps now is a fool's game. Apple trumpets the successes because it helps them sell hardware.
- notJim 14y agoDid you make too few sales, or not enough money per sale? Perhaps the iPad music category is too niche, unless you can justify a high price-point.
- cageface 14y agoHard to say. As other people have reported, total profit seems to be loosely correlated with price. I sell more at lower price points but total revenue is similar. Some music apps make do really well but they're generally much less complex and technical than mine.
- dasil003 14y agoWorking for every Tom, Dick and Harry sounds like a fucking nightmare.