[cageface]

Even last year when I spent a while in the top 5 in dev tools, I wasn't netting more than $25 per day.

I've had apps in the iPad "what's hot" music app list many times but they're still only bringing chicken scratch compared to what I could have made consulting instead. The handful of home runs you hear about obscure the fact that for 99% of us the best way to make money in the app store is to charge by the hour for writing them for someone else.