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Back then I was really surprised that I couldn't find a service like this. Had I found one I probably would've used it.
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Semi-rhetorical answer: 1. It still provides more value than the monthly subscription. 2. People have shown a greater willingness to pay for ongoing features and support in a SAAS model than in other formats. 3. It better aligns with the costs of support and maintenance that the provider needs to provide. 4. It's less risky for the consumer to get started. 5. There's no piracy or people decompiling your app and putti…
I built and sold an installable application in the past, and #5 was brutal. For some reason it's rarely discussed.
The best thing you can do is identify them and segment them into beta / test updates for experimental features which you wouldn’t test on paying users.
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I had a customer openly admit to me that they had been using a pirated version of my app until now. Pretty crazy when you see your own app on torrent sites.
Only when your goal is making money and not making apps to further humanity
Not all problems are workable within that constraint.
I must be thick but... I have no idea what their product does after reading the interview. Can someone explain it for the rest of us?
It turns a podcast into a video with some animation and transcripts. I made a similar website here https://0work.co
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It’s a one-man effort (Marco Arment). It’s not reasonable to expect him to develop for multiple platforms.
Maybe, but it is slightly ironic to chose ' the ' walled garden platform and also read that quote from him in the shared article: > For podcasting to remain open and free, we must not leave major shortcomings for proprietary, locked-down services to exploit. Conversely, the more we strengthen the open podcast ecosystem with content, functionality, and ease of use, the larger the barrier becomes that any walled garden…
And I suppose if I must choose a walled garden, I’d rather choose the one with the lowest walls.
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As for paid versions of Monument Valley, sales from the iTunes App Store far outpace sales on other marketplaces. Purchases on iOS account for 73 percent of Ustwo's $14.4 million of revenue, while only 17 percent of that total revenue came from Google Play. https://www.polygon.com/2016/5/20/11724058/monument-valley-s...
This particular data point is irrelevant since the game launched on Android one year after its iOS debut, losing the novelty and marketing factors.
Despite far fewer devices, the Apple App Store has always made more revenue than Android. The most recent real numbers [0] I could find show this is a big difference.
I always assumed that’s why app devs roll out on iOS first.
[0] https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/10/11/as-usual-apples-ap...
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Do you have access to a formatted source of the data that was used to make the percentile calculator ? They claim it is based off the 2014 American Community Survey's Public Use Microdata Sample, but clicking on the provided link takes you to a directory with hundreds of zip folders. Also the last link to "howmuch.net" states that their numbers include any wage earners whatsoever. "There is one important caveat to ke…
Why single out part timers, students and teenagers? How does any of that matter when talking about Americans earning less than $1000/mo? "These Americans make less than that, but let's not count them"???
The same is true for students, albeit in a lesser form. Nevertheless, students will rarely have full time, qualified jobs. They need the time to go to class, and have no qualifications or experience.
The fact that part timers are discounted, is because if you work 50% then it is to be expected that your monthly salary is half that of full time employment. Sure, some people may want to work more but cannot, but for many it is a choice that enables them to do something else. Raising kids for example.
Were not counting infants or dead people neither. Because it would not make sense. The point is to understand the wage situation of people when their wages are not influenced by something else, so that we can compare.
Nobody should be making 76k a month when millions of hard working Americans are barely making 1k a month /s
Beyond that, his lifetime income, even assuming zero business expenses and a hyper optimistic business lifetime, is not remotely enough to guide a government. It's no even enough to buy a decent apartment building.
This income level is closer to the $1000 a month person than the Koch brothers by several decimal places. And the difference between how he got what he has vs theirs is like the difference between a faucet and a drain.
I must be thick but... I have no idea what their product does after reading the interview. Can someone explain it for the rest of us?
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