macworld.com — Phill Ryu on Monday announced My Dream App, a new competition that invites contestants to submit their best ideas for a “killer app” for Mac OS X. Contestants can earn prizes including Macs and iPods, and will have their ideas judged by industry luminaries including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Aug 21, 2006 View in Crawl 4
myheaditchesAug 21, 2006
Phill definitely won't see all of that money. He needs to pay for hosting, a web designer, three programmers, 6 iPods, 3 Mac Minis, and 3 MacBooks. A website that gets tons of traffic is not cheap to pay hosting for.
twangoAug 21, 2006
Arguing over what platform you're using is about as grade-school as it gets.
slantyyzAug 21, 2006
I bought my Mac primarily to use iLife. I'm sure that I can't be the only one.
slantyyzAug 21, 2006
It already exists. It's one of GeeThree's slick tools. It's an iMovie plugin that's in one of their toolsets.
dalesmatrixAug 22, 2006
well, I don't know why people are so uptight about this. just because someone can come up with a cool idea, doesn't mean they ever would have gotten around to implementing it. Also, when people get venture capital money, they often lose all control of the product and retain only a marginal percentage, this doesn't seem to different to that IMHO. I for one think it's a cool idea, more power to them.
jonnyquizAug 22, 2006
No, no, no. It's 15% net, not 15% gross. That means you get 15% of any "profit" not 15% of the total sales revenue. Here's an example.15% gross of $1million sales equals $150,000. Nice.15% net of $1million sales equals 0.15x($1million – “the costs”) You have no say what “the costs” are. For example:- Developers’ time ($60,000), server rental ($35,000), web-hosting & bandwidth ($25,000), marketing ($75,000), 85 foot yacht in Aruba ($804,999).15% net of $1million sales equals 15 cents. Not so nice.I don’t think the judges have thought it through. Smeger’s post yesterday thought it was 15% of sales (implying gross). Guys, have a good hard look at whether you want to be involved with this project. I think it’s a really bad idea.
merrick015Aug 22, 2006
well its great for people who have good ideas but no talent in sw development or too lazy/retarded to obtain IP rights.. 15% of x for not following thru seems reasonable. 85% of x for taking someone's idea and making x of it seems the same. eh whatever..
shinji246Aug 28, 2008
www.votervirus.com - enter contest, win contest