[justwannasing]

Who creates what you see on the App Store? Who wrote all that and designed it? Who wrote the code for the App Store? Are you saying no professional sales people were involved in this? How does anyone in the world know when a new item shows up in the App Store? Who pays for all those ads you see on TV and in magazines and online?

[mikeash]

Is this just a terminology problem? "Salesmen" to me are the people in suits who you talk to when you want a piece of software that doesn't list a price and just says "Call for a quote." The people you're talking about are programmers.

How does anyone in the world know when a new item shows up in the app store? For 99.99% of apps, it's either word of mouth or marketing activities undertaken by the developer. Apple's own marketing is great if you're one of the favored few, but for everybody else it does nothing.