That was an excellent post.
The only thing I'm not entirely on-board with is the notion that 30 cents on the dollar is too much to pay for the ecosystem you have access to.
I say that, of course, with zero first-hand knowledge of what it takes to get software to market via conventional means. I'm just looking at the fact that, with the mere push of a button, an app developer can have his product literally published and marketed to a potential market of tens of millions of users.
How much would it cost a guy like me to get an application I've developed published with that kind of exposure? Would I realistically expect to get back 70% of every dollar spent on my app if it was sitting on a shelf at Best Buy and I had to go through some kind of software publishing company?
(I'm meaning this to be a real discussion, btw. This is not "fanboyism" or whatever. They are serious questions that I have often wondered about.)
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