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The article makes some fundamental mistakes: 1) It talks about an app that reached #8 in "Top Paid". The more interesting list would be "Top Grossing" 2) It t

The article makes some fundamental mistakes: 1) It talks about an app that reached #8 in "Top Paid". The more interesting list would be "Top Grossing" 2) It talks about a trivial app that was created with very little effort. While gimmick apps might work on iOS, people prefer to buy actually useful software on the Mac. The title is still somewhat true: It's unlikely you will become very rich by selling Mac Apps. But you can make a decent living; I currently make around 6000€/month (gross revenue) from two Mac Apps.

ThomPete 11y ago
I don't think it's a mistake as my guess is he is comparing with with the iOS app store where this would mean fairly certain success. I agree with the trivial app comment but I have a unique app which is doing pretty well. However compared to the iOS store it's not potentially self sustaining to be in the top once you get there.
vijayr 11y ago
One of your apps is to view Access DB on Macs. I'd have never guessed in a million years that people are still using Access, and that it is possible to build a business on top of it. Goes to show that all these rankings etc don't matter as much as we are led to believe.
- slantyyz 11y ago
  Access is a pretty handy desktop analysis tool for running ad-hoc queries against linked tables, etc. You do see it used quite frequently in enterprise situations where desktop users have outgrown Excel but aren't quite ready to deal with a server-based database. Filemaker Pro is still hanging around too, for what it's worth.
- leesalminen 11y ago
  We do data migrations for our SaaS offering. Most of our competitors use Access as the database. When I go to migrate data it's very convenient to pull up an Access viewer on OSX to get a feel for the data structure so I can inform the customer on what will be migrated. Saves the minute it takes to boot up a Windows VM (and pay monthly for Access 365).
kranner 11y ago
The article also refers to Macs as PCs!
- outworlder 11y ago
  Mac PCs, can be translated to "Mac Personal Computers", as opposed to IBM-PCs.
  - kranner 11y ago
    I'm aware that PC is used to refer to desktop computers here. But as I understand it the convention is that "PC" by itself means a Windows computer.

ThomPete 11y ago

I don't think it's a mistake as my guess is he is comparing with with the iOS app store where this would mean fairly certain success. I agree with the trivial app comment but I have a unique app which is doing pretty well. However compared to the iOS store it's not potentially self sustaining to be in the top once you get there.

vijayr 11y ago

One of your apps is to view Access DB on Macs. I'd have never guessed in a million years that people are still using Access, and that it is possible to build a business on top of it. Goes to show that all these rankings etc don't matter as much as we are led to believe.

slantyyz 11y ago
Access is a pretty handy desktop analysis tool for running ad-hoc queries against linked tables, etc. You do see it used quite frequently in enterprise situations where desktop users have outgrown Excel but aren't quite ready to deal with a server-based database. Filemaker Pro is still hanging around too, for what it's worth.
leesalminen 11y ago
We do data migrations for our SaaS offering. Most of our competitors use Access as the database. When I go to migrate data it's very convenient to pull up an Access viewer on OSX to get a feel for the data structure so I can inform the customer on what will be migrated. Saves the minute it takes to boot up a Windows VM (and pay monthly for Access 365).

kranner 11y ago

The article also refers to Macs as PCs!

outworlder 11y ago
Mac PCs, can be translated to "Mac Personal Computers", as opposed to IBM-PCs.
- kranner 11y ago
  I'm aware that PC is used to refer to desktop computers here. But as I understand it the convention is that "PC" by itself means a Windows computer.