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Top 1% of iOS Game Developers Make a Third of All Revenue

Posted by Soulskill on from the fighting-for-scraps dept.

donniebaseball23 writes "The top one percent of iOS game developers earn over a third of the gaming revenue made on the App Store, according to a new survey of iOS developers. The survey, set up by Canadian indie developer Owen Goss, found that the bottom 80 percent of iOS developers are splitting a mere three percent of all App Store game revenue."

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  1. Re:top one percent of X control large amount of Y by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not true. Apple makes roughly a third of the revenue. The top 1% make closer to a quarter of the revenue.

  2. You're mistaken by shunnicutt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the plus symbol has nothing to do with in-app purchases. It denotes universal apps -- apps which will run on the iPhone or iPod Touch as well as the iPad.