[jarek]

> Plenty of apps have existed for decades on those prices.

Most of these weren't funded by VCs expecting some sort of liquidity event to get return on their investment.

[shinratdr]

Fair enough but it's not like it was some once-in-a-lifetime buyout, it was $25 million and it was for talent not the app. Did the VCs really make that much off this sale?

[jarek]

$5 million in the hand is better than $10 Mac App Store sales in the cloud, apparently