Bad news good news. 50% of 60B to just 25

firewood · Dec 4, 2012, 04:23 PM

Canalys was reported on techcrunch as saying the top 25 developers took in over 50% of all app store revenue.

But that's reported to be growing to $60B by ABI research. Which means that nearly $30B of revenue is available to be made by smaller developers not in the top 25. ... I'll take my 0.001% of that please.

ArtOfWarfare · Dec 5, 2012, 09:18 AM

In my experience, if you want to get money, sell on the Mac App Store, not the iOS App Store. My plans:

- Make a few awesome Mac App Store apps to get a name for myself.
- Get a lot of fans of my Mac apps.
- Make apps for iOS and have all my Mac app fans know about them.
- They all get my iOS apps too.
- That puts me in the top charts for iOS.
- My iOS apps now have great visibility and get downloaded a lot, too. I let these users know that I have apps on the Mac app store, too.
- Take over both stores like Angry Birds.
- Rule the world.

MattInOz · Dec 5, 2012, 09:30 PM

How many of the top 25 started small though?

ArtOfWarfare · Dec 5, 2012, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by MattInOz

How many of the top 25 started small though?

How many companies don't start small? About the only time it seems like that would happen is the company is a product of another institution (IE, a larger company split into multiple), in which case I'm not sure if it's really fair to say that the company "started".

KarlJay · Dec 18, 2012, 11:41 AM

That's a HUGE exponential distribution. It also seems that Apple has a heavy favor towards the few that share the most. Given most of the apps I've seen, I can't say that I wouldn't do the same if I were Apple.

Dec 4, 2012, 04:23 PM	#1
firewood macrumors 603 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Silicon Valley	Bad news good news. 50% of 60B to just 25 Canalys was reported on techcrunch as saying the top 25 developers took in over 50% of all app store revenue. But that's reported to be growing to $60B by ABI research. Which means that nearly $30B of revenue is available to be made by smaller developers not in the top 25. ... I'll take my 0.001% of that please.
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Dec 5, 2012, 09:18 AM	#2
ArtOfWarfare macrumors 68040 Join Date: Nov 2007	In my experience, if you want to get money, sell on the Mac App Store, not the iOS App Store. My plans: - Make a few awesome Mac App Store apps to get a name for myself. - Get a lot of fans of my Mac apps. - Make apps for iOS and have all my Mac app fans know about them. - They all get my iOS apps too. - That puts me in the top charts for iOS. - My iOS apps now have great visibility and get downloaded a lot, too. I let these users know that I have apps on the Mac app store, too. - Take over both stores like Angry Birds. - Rule the world. __________________ Battery Status - On the Mac App Store The only app that'll estimate when your wireless devices will need their batteries changed. Like it on Facebook!
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MattInOz macrumors 68020 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Sydney	How many of the top 25 started small though? __________________ There is no such thing as "Collective Wisdom" [13" MacBookPro 2.7Ghz, 27"Al iMac i7, Black MacBook 13", iPhone 4, iPad]
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Dec 18, 2012, 11:41 AM	#5
KarlJay macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2010 Location: California	That's a HUGE exponential distribution. It also seems that Apple has a heavy favor towards the few that share the most. Given most of the apps I've seen, I can't say that I wouldn't do the same if I were Apple.
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