Re:Buy every iPhone app for $144,326.06
by vaksel on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @01:01PM
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What you learn from this is that iPhone apps has a ton of crap. I sincerely doubt all 1,600 apps by that one company have any quality
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They have just a few apps (lilke iMapsPro) but sell different versions for different regions. I guess that's just a limitation on the App store, as they can't sell different regions within their app at the current price point ($0.99).
It looks like a clever idea. This way you can still use maps on vacation, without getting the roaming charges. It seems to be just a maps wrapper around Open Streetmaps.
What you also learn is that this was a brilliant move by Apple. Outsource the development, reap the benefits. This was already known, but I would be interested to see how this these numbers stack up against Apple's internally developed applications (cost to produce, and revenue generated).
Not a brilliant move by Apple, remember that it was the community that asked for this, Apple didn't make a move, the community moved Apple to this direction, Apple wanted people to write webapps instead of using a SDK.