Comments on: The App Store is an ongoing karma leak. http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/11/20/the-app-store-is-an-ongoing-karma-leak/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Panagiotis Atmatzidis http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/11/20/the-app-store-is-an-ongoing-karma-leak/comment-page-1/#comment-25108 Panagiotis Atmatzidis Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:25:37 +0000 http://blog.cosmix.org/?p=1958#comment-25108 I enjoy downloading famous game titles from the AppStore and check them out. After I played a bit NBA Live (all the playoffs series) and FIFA 2010, I had a discussion on #macdev@Freenode about the number of teams required to build such an application. The graphics are stunning for such small device and for 7,99 € I don't think that it's an interesting market compared to the PS3, XBOX, PC or Wii market. The answer by most active developers was that only a small %, makes 'real money' out of the AppStore right now. Considering, Apple's policy, recent <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of-facebooks-massively-popular-iphone-app-quits-the-project/" rel="nofollow">departures</a> and developers comments on the matter, I think that a becoming an iPhone developer is not as good as it seems at first glance. Maybe with the arrival of Android 2.0 better days will come for smartphones developers. I enjoy downloading famous game titles from the AppStore and check them out. After I played a bit NBA Live (all the playoffs series) and FIFA 2010, I had a discussion on #macdev@Freenode about the number of teams required to build such an application. The graphics are stunning for such small device and for 7,99 € I don’t think that it’s an interesting market compared to the PS3, XBOX, PC or Wii market.

The answer by most active developers was that only a small %, makes ‘real money’ out of the AppStore right now.

Considering, Apple’s policy, recent departures and developers comments on the matter, I think that a becoming an iPhone developer is not as good as it seems at first glance.

Maybe with the arrival of Android 2.0 better days will come for smartphones developers.

]]> By: adamo http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/11/20/the-app-store-is-an-ongoing-karma-leak/comment-page-1/#comment-25107 adamo Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:41:10 +0000 http://blog.cosmix.org/?p=1958#comment-25107 We are lemmings. Not only do we accept such terms, we are so glad that we consider them privileges too. We are lemmings. Not only do we accept such terms, we are so glad that we consider them privileges too.

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