Apple has made less than $45m in revenue from the app store • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple has made less than $45m in revenue from the app store

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Post by zackattack » Thu, May 14, 2009, 1:59 AM UTC

dryicerx wrote: post #4

paulhart wrote: post #2

How many iPhone and iPod Touch sales have they made based on the availability of third party apps? The ecosystem is heavily pushed to consumers.

I came to drop the same comment, but the last part of the article points that out Much like iTunes, Apple is using the App Store to drive demand for their hardware.

I believe that iTMS has evolved into a revenue machine for Apple.

Re: Apple has made less than $45m in revenue from the app store

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Post by climber » Thu, May 14, 2009, 7:51 AM UTC

If apple gets 30% and makes a max of $45 mil; then all the users together got no more than $45 / 30% * 70% = $105 million.

If this is the case, this seems like a very small market for everyone to be fighting after.

Re: Apple has made less than $45m in revenue from the app store

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Post by ashleyw » Thu, May 14, 2009, 10:02 AM UTC

axod wrote: post #17

paulhart wrote: post #2

How many iPhone and iPod Touch sales have they made based on the availability of third party apps? The ecosystem is heavily pushed to consumers.

I really doubt many people buy an iPod / iPhone because of the 3rd party apps even though they are advertised a lot atm.

I totally disagree — the iPhone isn't that great of a phone without 3rd party apps. I mean, it has an awesome browser and such, but I cant imagine owning a phone which didn't have a big 3rd party ecosystem behind it.