Thanks for sharing, this article was indeed interesting. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Josh Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > There has been a lot of loud fretting and stressing about app profitability > recently on this list with people invoking the panacea/gold rush that is > supposed to be the iPhone app store. To add some perspective, check out > this guys experience with a well reviewed game on the iPhone that even got > coverage on major casual gaming blogs like Kotaku: > > http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2009/03/09/the-numbers-post-aka-brutal-honesty/ > > He had a few sales spikes, but is averaging about 20 sales a day. This > whole gold rush myth of mobile apps magically making part time indie dev's > rich overnight is just like every other gold rush, largely hype. > > Also interesting, there is apparently rampant piracy going on in the iPhone > app world. I wonder how many of the unscrupulous people who buy a game, > play it for 23 hours and return it on Android would just be pirating it > anyhow? I would wager that its a significant number. > > -j > > > >
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