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Re:The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich by melling on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @12:53PM (#9727172)
How about the problem discussed in the article?

"One Mac app developer made it up to No. 8 with just 59 downloads"

If you make it to number 8 with so few downloads, there probably isn't much of a market.

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Re:The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich by geerlingguy on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @03:32PM (#9728213)
I've been hovering around the top 30 in the Graphics category with anywhere between 1-5 sales/day of the $0.99 app Quick Resizer[1]. It's not that hard in certain categories.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-resizer/id498486288?mt...

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Re:The Mac App Store Won’t Make You Rich by fuzzywalrus on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @01:04PM (#9727247)
Notably, this article fails to mention that this is for only the graphics chart, and the selection of graphics apps fairly limited. Outside of Serif Labs, Bohemian Coding and Pixelmator, most of the apps are fairly one-note like Redacted. I don't think desktop users are of the same mindset for one-off applications outside of small utilities like SnapRuler or Colorsnapper.
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