Wednesday, June 23, 2010

AppStore economics

Like in any other Long Tail business models, iPhone/iPad applications seem to make money for the store owner, not the content developer.

The development of the typical app cost $35,000 and the median paid app earns $682 dollars per year after Apple took its cut. You see where this is going.. We get to break even on our App Development costs in... 51 years.

h/t marginalrevolution.com


tags: distribution, business, model, control, control point, mobile, apple

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