iPhone Devs: Kings or Paupers?

[jlake02]

Often we're curious how much money the average developer is making via the AppStore. We were lucky enough to get a nice dev to share some figures in this interview.

Seems he's done fairly well, but not as well as some highly publisized accounts.

Thanks to Jeremy for being so open!

 

[firewood]

The average is mostly a useless figure, as there may be almost no one who makes anything near the average amount. As in the classic 80/20 rule for anything, there are a few who make a lot more the average number, and most of the rest who make far less, if much at all.

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[jlake02]

Yep.. always interesting when a dev shares his/her income figures from the AppStore though

 

[rotobadger]

I would bet that, if you broke down their time invested into an app and divided their income from that app by hours worked, most of them are making 3 bucks an hour or something like that.

 

[firewood]

I would bet that, if you broke down their time invested into an app and divided their income from that app by hours worked, most of them are making 3 bucks an hour or something like that.

It's not that easy to do yet, as one might have to wait months or years to determine the NPV of a declining but long term income stream. ( I have a couple PalmOS apps which I developed 5 years ago that still trickle in small amounts of income. Several years worth of small amounts eventually adds up to a nice number.