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Is it true that Apple has made more money from developer signups (600,000 developers I heard) than from sales from the app store? There's money in shovels and

by illumen 17y ago

Is it true that Apple has made more money from developer signups (600,000 developers I heard) than from sales from the app store? There's money in shovels and picks...

greendestiny 17y ago
Not according to another article on here recently that put Apple's take from the AppStore at 45 million.
- sachinag 17y ago
  Wait, at $45MM, that would be $60MM from developer sign ups.
  - greendestiny 17y ago
    Ah yeah. I think that article had a much lower estimate of developer sign ups as well.
atarashi 17y ago
The 600,000 figure is probably just the number of times the SDK was downloaded (if the figure is at all legitimate; someone could have just made it up). Boucher says it a lot better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607884 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607884
- vlad 17y ago
  600K is probably the number of developer accounts, including free and paid. Your metric is not useful because each beta release comes with a new SDK.
  - atarashi 17y ago
    Yeah, I agree with you. My metric was erroneous, and I noticed too late to edit the comment. Thanks for calling me on it.
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