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iPhone =/= Debian appiPhone =/= Debian appPosted Jun 19, 2010 4:40 UTC (Sat) by bartszyszka (guest, #67794)In reply to: iPhone =/= Debian app by tialaramex Parent article: The Party of Gno (Linux Magazine)
I don't think your analogy to websites during the dot-com bubble works exactly. During the dot-com bubble, people gave everything away for free without a business model, running on borrowed time until the investors' money ran out. With iPhone apps, the actual customer pays for what the developer makes (with Apple taking a cut, they are a business afterall). I, as a consumer, pay $9.99 for an iPhone app and the developer gets a majority of that money and developers make real profits. That's a big deal. There are very few websites people are willing to pay even a dollar for.
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iPhone =/= Debian app Posted Jun 19, 2010 8:11 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Sure, but the developer paid several hundred developers this year, and so did you, to Apple. And both of you are going to pay several hundred dollars again, when the next revs comes out in another couple of years. That's a bigger deal.
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