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Is the Apple App Store a Casino?
An anonymous reader writes "Fast Company takes a look at the Apple App Store and concludes that it's a casino where most developers are making tragic losses and a tiny few are striking it filthy rich. The article discusses a new book exposing the App Store millionaires, called 'Appillionaires,' which compares the psychological effects of a hit app on a programmer to a gambler's high. One millionaire programmer explains the intense feeling of being in the top-ten: 'The App Store had established some kind of intravenous connection to my body and was pumping me full of Apple-branded heroin.' But, the piece warns, the majority of developers fail to make any return on their app."
We demand people fairly buy all of the apps on the App Store! Any app that is not bought fairly is being discriminated against!
First there was the 68K to PowerPC switch. Then there was the old world ROM to new world ROM switch. Then there was the PowerPC to x86 switch.
68K to Power PC was 1994. New World ROM is irrelevant.
If you're suggesting pattern, it's a 10-12 year one. Don't you change your PC at least that often?
A Mac is more expensive than a Windows PC because Apple has chosen to target midrange and high-end market segments, not low-end.
Developers aren't low end. Well some of the wannabes on Slashdot might be. Perhaps you are. But real developers aren't.