Excessive profits (or in this case, PERCEIVED profits) breed ruinous competition.
In other words, there are too many developers given the size of the market (talking about the number of customers here). Apple's boasting about tens of thousands of apps is actually their public declaration of their failings. The way I see it is like this; There will always be a few serious developers, who do NOT base their entire business off mobile apps (at least not for a single platform). These developers will use their mobile apps to support whatever else it is that they happen to be selling. The app itself isn't going to make them rich, but the convenience of pairing (multiple) mobile platforms with their other software/service WILL. This is a good approach to mobile software development. The rest of the get-rich-quick wannabes will put, as they say, "all their eggs in one basket", and compete themselves out of business. Eventually, they will understand that this type of development is no way to get rich, so they will fold. It seems like a nice idea that the market will eventually settle, allowing at least a reasonable chance of making a comfortable living, but the problem is that this type of thing is so easy to get into that there will always be a glut of get-rich-quick wannabes. On Oct 22, 1:59 am, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting read about Apple's app store developers/entrepreneurs. > > http://www.newsweek.com/id/216788/page/1 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
