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Spam, propaganda, and not true. "While I know that there are thousands of apps you can buy for your iPhone/iPod touch, I've never actually met anyone who's eve
by jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
Spam, propaganda, and not true.
"While I know that there are thousands of apps you can buy for your iPhone/iPod touch, I've never actually met anyone who's ever bought one."
Did you forget about 1 Billion+ App downloads? Sure, a large portion of them are free. Those free apps can make money with ads+incentives for a freemium upgrade to the "Pro" version. Yes, Apple is harsh with developers. Yes, the iPhone app game is way harder than it seems. I'd rather deal with Apple's process as a small dev, than dealing with carriers and their nonsense. Do they even want to deal with someone making a game on the weekend for fun? Probably not. GTFO and don't come back.
- haseman 17y agoI think you have to look at his audience before you judge what he's saying. If you're a major company the Apple app store is a really bad play right now...if you're nimble startup then what he's saying is crap. Your overhead is much lower so gambling 70k worth of your own development is different than the half million it costs to make a major mobile app.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoSo how much of that Billion+ downloads is not free? The freemium sales should figure in the statistics somewhere as well I suppose.