Let's look at the facts[1]: "As of June, Apple has had 75 billion cumulative App Store downloads, paying out a total of $20 billion to developers, with $5 bill

Let's look at the facts[1]: "As of June, Apple has had 75 billion cumulative App Store downloads, paying out a total of $20 billion to developers, with $5 billion paid in 2014 alone. According to app-tracking site AppShopper, there are 1,211,461 apps available in the App Store, including over 1 million iPhone apps and 610,000 iPad apps." There are literally billons of dollars sloshing through the App Store, not even counting ad revenue. Yes, most of the apps released don't see any of that. But some of them do. It absolutely IS possible to make enough to make a living selling apps on the App Store, or on Google Play for that matter. There's over a million apps on the App Store, and if only one percent of them is producing meaningful revenues, that's still over 10,000 apps, many of them likely supporting multiple developers. And I suspect that, even though the median payment is a pittance, it's more than 1% making revenue. And again, this isn't even counting ads! What libre smartphone OS has that kind of revenue potential available to developers? 1) http://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/05/app-store-july-record/ http://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/05/app-store-july-record/