Now this is depressing. A developer who wrote a software selling on the Mac App store for $5 was ranked #8 on the U.S most downloaded paid apps at just 94 downloads. This summarises things up:
Apple sold 237 million iPhones and iPads last year, compared with 19 million Macs, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The total number of Macs in circulation is under 100 million, and apps don’t work on some older models. Apps also aren’t as necessary on a PC, where it’s almost as easy to type a URL into a browser window as it is to tap an icon. “There are lots of people who do make money” on the Mac App Store, says Slaven Radic, chief executive officer of app marketing company Tapstream Network, “but nowhere near to what people on iOS do.”
The bottom line: Having a bestseller on the Mac App Store may not exactly set a developer up for retirement. 🙁 Read the full story here on Bloomberg.
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