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Re:Secret iPad by xxpor on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:40PM (#22774628)
There's no money to be made in the app store, for the most part. OTOH, there's plenty to be made in monthly service revenue (and 30% of it isn't taken by apple in most cases).
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Re:Secret iPad by alasdair_ on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:59PM (#22774753)
The money thing is more a power law thing. There is DEFINITELY money to be made in the app store (I worked on an app that made a billion in revenue in seven months from a product with only twelve engineers directly working on it) but it’s almost all going to the winners in a specific category.
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Re:Secret iPad by lifeisstillgood on Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:00AM (#22776501)
>>> I worked on an app that made a billion in revenue in seven months from a product with only twelve engineers directly working on it

uh? Can you indicate what? How many other apps have similar penetration?

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Re:Secret iPad by sdrothrock on Saturday April 04, 2020 @03:03AM (#22776716)
He's mentioned working on Pokemon Go before, so I'd guess that.
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Re:Secret iPad by jklm on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:50PM (#22775546)
Can you share the space your app was in out of curiosity?
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Re:Secret iPad by alasdair_ on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:39PM (#22783063)
Pokemon GO, it’s a game.
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Re:Secret iPad by xxpor on Saturday April 04, 2020 @02:59PM (#22780585)
Yeah, that's a much better way of putting it.
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