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Re:As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living by kumarm on Sunday November 18, 2012 @03:05AM (#4800196)
>>The apps that list different types of knots...not so much.

If you look at AppStores there are apps with Types of Knots that has in access of Millions of downloads (Which I am sure had pretty good return).

Your analogy is wrong IMO. App boom is similar to Web Boom of Late 90's. Almost everyone says they only visit 1-50 websites a day but there are several 10K's of sites that are profitable.

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Re:As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living by wallflower on Sunday November 18, 2012 @12:18PM (#4800954)
> there are apps with Types of Knots that has in access of Millions of downloads (Which I am sure had pretty good return).

And there is even a niche inside the Knots niche. The sad truth is people are searching for specific things 'how to tie my tie' not mediocre social media/game/productivity apps.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.artelplus....

"INSTALLS: 5,000,000 - 10,000,000

Ratings: 1/2

(114,872)"

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