Will the real app millionaire please stand up?

Re:Will the real app millionaire please stand up? by trimbo on Monday September 03, 2012 @11:55AM (#4470770)

The real app millionaires are all working at Apple. They're the ones who win when people develop apps.

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Re:Will the real app millionaire please stand up? by gurkendoktor on Monday September 03, 2012 @12:13PM (#4470838)

And beyond that, Pages for iOS has been on the top-selling (sometimes top-grossing) list most of the time when I was looking at it. On the Mac App Store, I wouldn't even be surprised if Apple was the top grossing developer.

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Re:Will the real app millionaire please stand up? by trimbo on Monday September 03, 2012 @12:40PM (#4470947)

Yeah, it's kind of like developing for the Nintendo platform. There are, of course, a handful of third party app developers who do very, very, very well. These are the outliers. Mostly, third party devs don't succeed and their apps are simply a selling point for Apple to use for the platform as a whole.

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Re:Will the real app millionaire please stand up? by gurkendoktor on Monday September 03, 2012 @12:33PM (#4470925)

Actually, I'd be surprised if Apple was not the top-grossing developer on the Mac App Store. 8 out of 10 top grossing apps are Apple apps right now. (iPhoto?? Who has not gotten that with their Mac?)

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Re:Will the real app millionaire please stand up? by ceejayoz on Monday September 03, 2012 @04:06PM (#4471634)

> iPhoto?? Who has not gotten that with their Mac?

Upgrades to the latest version aren't free.

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