mercurynews.com— Can someone explain how so many developers are going to make money exactly? Or is this a typical herd effect that won't benefit anyone but Apple?
Jun 16, 2008View in Crawl 4
Of all the platforms you could have chosen to compare the potential iPhone application market against, why on earth did you choose Facebook? farfromperfectx pretty much nails the principle problem - Facebook applications are mostly frivolous and therefore nobody would ever pay for them. But Facebook isn't the only open platform out there that you can develop for, and others are far more relevant in the mobile phone arena. What about Windows Mobile applications? Palm applications? Do you think people developing applications for those platforms aren't making money?
Yes, the 21,000 developers who were denied into Apple's paid developer program will flock to Android instead. So long plastic iPhone. haha...give Apple some more time and they will f**k up the iPhone for sure. They always do. Look what they did to the iPod nano. yuck.
"Can someone explain how so many developers are going to make money exactly?"I would guess most of these developers aren't putting a ton of money into it. Apple did a great job making the SDK easy to develop for -- especially for OSX developers. It's a low risk, high reward, opportunity for them. They don't have to sell that many copies to break even or turn a small profit and they might get lucky and have a hugely successful app. Why wouldn't they want to get involved?
kelmonJun 17, 2008
Of all the platforms you could have chosen to compare the potential iPhone application market against, why on earth did you choose Facebook? farfromperfectx pretty much nails the principle problem - Facebook applications are mostly frivolous and therefore nobody would ever pay for them. But Facebook isn't the only open platform out there that you can develop for, and others are far more relevant in the mobile phone arena. What about Windows Mobile applications? Palm applications? Do you think people developing applications for those platforms aren't making money?
josereyes0Jun 17, 2008
I'm on the same boat as you man, and I applied the day it was announced.
nbcaffeineJun 17, 2008
"Must have 2 years experience developing iPhone applications." DAMN!
dimitrisokolovJun 18, 2008
Yes, the 21,000 developers who were denied into Apple's paid developer program will flock to Android instead. So long plastic iPhone. haha...give Apple some more time and they will f**k up the iPhone for sure. They always do. Look what they did to the iPod nano. yuck.
deadbabyJun 19, 2008
"Can someone explain how so many developers are going to make money exactly?"I would guess most of these developers aren't putting a ton of money into it. Apple did a great job making the SDK easy to develop for -- especially for OSX developers. It's a low risk, high reward, opportunity for them. They don't have to sell that many copies to break even or turn a small profit and they might get lucky and have a hugely successful app. Why wouldn't they want to get involved?
3dsn2008Jun 23, 2008
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