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Re:1 Billion Paid out through the Apple App Store - Really? by megablast on Sunday June 20, 2010 @10:14PM (#1447681)
Well, no he isn't. He is trying to extrapolate information from a few different data sources, the figure of $1 billion from Apple, and the average price of a sellable app.

From that, and some seasonal data, he is trying to calculate how much has been made over time. While he is probably not entirely accurate, what he has done makes perfect sense, and he is not waving his hands in the air to try to make up results according to an agenda.

Re:1 Billion Paid out through the Apple App Store - Really? by swombat on Monday June 21, 2010 @04:47AM (#1448302)
You could take the same numbers and make them say the opposite with subtly different assumptions. In short, those numbers are meaningless, or at least this analysis is meaningless.