On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 1:10 pm, Jeffrey Kesselman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What you really need to asses income value is a distribution of the > income > > of a significant sized random sample across the entire space. > > Well, I doubt you are going to get that data, but post it here if you > do. Do you have enough data to dismiss the freemium model as a waste > of time? > I dont have the data to show that shredding your code and throwing it from the rooftops isn't a business model ,either. Thats a negation fallacy. Something is not true just because you don't have the information to prove it false. What it is a gigantic unknown risk. Risk management is the #1 job of all real game developers. Ask a few game producer if you don't believe me. > Are you of the opinion that one should not do something unless they > can calculate a statistically sound probable income from it? > See the above. And yes, one should not go into a business where they have no idea of what the risks are, how bad they are, or what to do about them. Thats called "gambling", not business. > > Are you really saying that one should release as many apps as possible > without doing any testing or debugging? I doubt it. > Zynga has made a much touted business of it. They do no testing, in fact they don't even consider a mal-feature a "bug" unless it is driving customers away from their behaviour goals. I have this from senior Zynga people. , I believe the long tail is positively correlated with low > quality. Now, there could be some high quality stuff there that is > limited by the person's grammar, spelling, marketing ability, or > motivation. > No, I don't have statistical proof of that. Do you have statistical > proof that it isn't true . > You realize that you have just made a religious argument? "I am going to act as if this is true because I wish it to be true and don't have proof it is false." Good way to run a religion. bad way to run a business. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
