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by throwa
5048 days ago
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Developers seem to flock to platforms like Apple, Facebook and Twitter based on the fact that they have a large and growing user base without giving thought to this issue of commoditization of complements and how the ultimately destroy the business or livelihood of these developers. Most people building products or sharecropping on other people's platform never make meaningful income and yet those platform keep will prefer to announce large sums paid out to developers to encourage you to keep building complements. Apple will claim they paid out $5 billion but spread the numerous app developers it becomes peanut and not enough to pay their bills. They won't tell you that to pay out $5bn they made atleast $2billion based on their 30% cut. They don't tell you that iOS app success is a "lottery": 60% (or more) of developers don't break even http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/ios-app-success-is-a-lo... http://andrewchen.co/2012/08/15/mobile-app-startups-are-fail... I really hope people will think hard before building their business on the back of Apple, Facebook, Twitter or any such platform. You can use them as as distribution without being dependent on them and that is the way to go. Be your own bitch and not a Twitter, Apple or Facebook bitch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/fred-wilson-be-your-own-bit... |
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