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As far as i see it, for media/gaming apps there are two platforms that you can (try to) make enough money to buy a small island with: facebook and iphone. Both are flooded now with competitors, and not of the stupid sort, so good luck...and await the xbox mobile!
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Are you joking? The top Facebook apps make more in a month than the top iPhone apps make in a lifetime. Even mid level apps, the sort that would never make the top 25 on iTunes, make more in a year than a top 10 paid app on iTunes does. Try Googling for Zynga Revenues. The Facebook platform is orders of magnitude more profitable than iPhone. Don't mistake buzz for profitability.
> Zynga Don't get me started on my Mafia Wars addiction.
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Are you joking? The top Facebook apps make more in a month than the top iPhone apps make in a lifetime. Even mid level apps, the sort that would never make the top 25 on iTunes, make more in a year than a top 10 paid app on iTunes does. Try Googling for Zynga Revenues. The Facebook platform is orders of magnitude more profitable than iPhone. Don't mistake buzz for profitability.
> Zynga Don't get me started on my Mafia Wars addiction.
Why is he complaining about Facebook when all the company did was respond to user complaints about apps that behaved badly? When thousands of people got daily invites to stupid apps, something had to be done. Regardless of whether facebook had ever announced the verified apps program, the new restrictions would make sense. When you develop for a young platform (particularly a proprietary one) you should realize it ma…
If it were more money he might have a better case. But given other platforms cost thousands of dollars (Sony's Playstation program for example) I don't see $375 as that much of a hardship.
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Are you joking? The top Facebook apps make more in a month than the top iPhone apps make in a lifetime. Even mid level apps, the sort that would never make the top 25 on iTunes, make more in a year than a top 10 paid app on iTunes does. Try Googling for Zynga Revenues. The Facebook platform is orders of magnitude more profitable than iPhone. Don't mistake buzz for profitability.
Thanks for the tip. I can't up vote you enough. Almost tempted to create new HN accounts just to up vote you.
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Thanks for the tip. I can't up vote you enough. Almost tempted to create new HN accounts just to up vote you.
Why all the downvotes? (I don't mind downvoted, just curious about an explaination).
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Thanks for the tip. I can't up vote you enough. Almost tempted to create new HN accounts just to up vote you.
Why all the downvotes? (I don't mind downvoted, just curious about an explaination).
Of course now I re-read all my comments right after I post them, so I tend to delete quite a few before voting happens either way.
Why is he complaining about Facebook when all the company did was respond to user complaints about apps that behaved badly? When thousands of people got daily invites to stupid apps, something had to be done. Regardless of whether facebook had ever announced the verified apps program, the new restrictions would make sense. When you develop for a young platform (particularly a proprietary one) you should realize it ma…
The new restrictions certainly made sense when they took average apps from infinite invites per day down to 20. But dropping that 20 back to 12, then charging you to get back to 20 doesn't help users in any way.
Are people still making money from facebook apps these days? I thought it was over a while back (and thus why the mass exodus to develop on the iPhone although apple's approval process sucks.)
Straight-up ad network banners won't make much money, but incentivized apps can pull in some serious cash.
That adds up fast, since the platform makes it not too hard to get to hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of pageviews a day. 1m page views per day at 50 cents eCPM is still $182k per year. Not a bad second income stream.