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by Turing_Machine 1230 days ago
> Without a portal that could direct millions of people to find my app, I probably would have made tens of dollars.

Good point. Another often unappreciated point is that it's way easier to convince people to give their credit card to Apple than it is to convince them to give it to some random web site. Especially if they've already given their credit card to Apple, as many of them have.