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I hope this works out for the Windows developers, but I have a suspicion that it wasn't the developers alone who ruined the iOS App Store. And, unfortunately,

I hope this works out for the Windows developers, but I have a suspicion that it wasn't the developers alone who ruined the iOS App Store. And, unfortunately, it really is "ruined"[1]. I started my current project as an iPhone app, then decided to move to an iPad, but, six months ago, after really evaluating the market, I realized I needed to make my product a web-based subscription with mobile features (probably embodied as apps). There was no way I could charge enough for my app to make a business, since I'm not creating a product that caters to the tens of millions. 1. It is ruined in the context of being able to make a living on an app without getting insanely lucky. There is little a company can do to market around the luck factor, and prices are so low that there is no middle ground.

partisan 14y ago
"It is ruined in the context of being able to make a living on an app without getting insanely lucky." That was a moment in time, really. It wasn't long enough to get nostalgic about it. The market was just developing. In any case, you had to be insanely lucky to create the right app at the right time then as well.
rossjudson 14y ago
Agreed. I don't even remember the last time I bought an app in the iOS store. Who has time to wade through all that shit, trying to find the one in a thousand that's worth looking at? Amazon stocks vastly greater numbers of products, yet I always seem to be _able_ to find something interesting to buy there.