People have been trashing iPhone's dev program since Apple first announced it; however, those who are making money in the store were ones who ignored hype aroun

People have been trashing iPhone's dev program since Apple first announced it; however, those who are making money in the store were ones who ignored hype around Android and made apps for a phone that existed, and reaped rewards when iPhone OS 2.0 launched. And so on. Claiming the app store is not a guaranteed gold mine long after its become obvious to everyone that it's quite saturated is not very useful. Yes, avoiding hype is important (dropping Android and making iPhone apps.) But it's more important to replace it with another form of "doing", not just dismiss the art of software development. If not developing on the iPhone, then what? An article with an answer would be more enlightening. As software entrepreneurs, we fail to do this time and time again. We measure the market by its huge successes... After years of playing the web game, I still can’t believe people think like this. You created 20 apps on the iPhone. That means you kept pumping them out, all to make $20/day from your best selling game? And you say others should realize it's a crap shoot? Sounds like you made it a crap shoot. It also sounds like you're the one who "thinks like that", and not most others (I imagine very few developers have 20 active apps total, let alone on a single platform.) What you are criticizing others for mainly applies to you and rarely to any other developer.