Re:iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer
by bignoggins on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @12:07PM
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i'm not too worried. if it happens it happens. This isn't even my best performing app by a long shot. Besides, it already has a ton of visibility in the app store so competitors would naturally arise whether I posted any numbers or not.
From my experience most successful entrepreneurs don't worry about competitors that much. They just focus on building the absolute best product they can.
One of our games was making very similar numbers for about 4 months, then a competitor, a talented college kid, decided he would make a game really similar to ours and put it out there for free. Not even with ads.
Over the next 4 months, we saw sales drop to about 1/5 of what we were making in our good months. He has out-ranked us and doesn't seem to have any interest in making much money tho he as since put in an ad that shows up upon a game-over.
I'm worried that you just put a nail in your own coffin, and are about a month or 2 from realizing it... on Android at least.
I wish you good luck. You need to step up your game now and make sure you are on the very cutting edge. If there's even 1 feature that your users want that you haven't done yet, that's the one feature that gets the competition an edge-in on your app.