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Just because the expected value of building something is low doesn't mean it's a bad model. It just means you have to execute well and that most people fail.
I thought it was already understood that the model of "create a $1 app and sell 10k of them per month" was long over. The App store is still a relatively new market, so people will continue to learn how to be successful on it. I just got an iPad and started using the App store for the first time in my life and guess what? Out of the 5 things I wanted to use the pad for, 3 of them didn't exist at all. There is plenty…
I'm also curious as to what you wanted to see. When I picked up my friend's iPad (a month or two ago) I struggled to find a good finance app that actually gave good charting and numbers for stock market options and commodity futures. I know I'm not the only one who would be interested in that AND I know that those of us who are have fairly deep pockets.
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There is nothing useful about those numbers Well, you can keep saying that but you have no numbers and no particularly concrete criticisms of his argument. Maybe he's not comparing like for like. Maybe all your friends have iPhones. Maybe you've forgotten many people outside of North America and Europe own mobile phones. The $35k, as mentioned in other comments in the thread, has very little bearing on his central ar…
"Maybe you've forgotten many people outside of North America and Europe own mobile phones." I wonder how many of those folks have phones that allow them to participate meaningfully in an application marketplace.
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"Maybe you've forgotten many people outside of North America and Europe own mobile phones." I wonder how many of those folks have phones that allow them to participate meaningfully in an application marketplace.
Isn't part of his point that you can make money or engage users via SMS or the web without an application marketplace?
It's interesting that he's a big business guy. I would restate his title as: "the Apple store is for suckers or smallfry, if you're a big company." And, he's right. Big companies do take $50k+ to create mobile apps. Big companies do have much better things to do with their money; they can add far more value at greater scale. Of course, Jane developer might not be in the same boat. Another interesting confounding vari…
You're absolutely right. But where's the fun in a headline like that. More to the point, I think if you read the rest of his blog, and take the perspective of some of the larger international companies, going for gold with the iPhone won't be the best business strategy. Tomi has given some case studies of how MMS has worked for car dealers in Germany, and even campaign promoters in Australia. There is this under-expl…