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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:Solution? by bit+trollent · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Every app developer pays Apple 30%.

    That's alot more than can be said about our federal tax laws which are more like a record of bribery and scams than a rational tax code.

    Google dodges taxes using techniques known as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich" to reduce its tax rate to 2.4 percent.

    citation provided

  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.