[HN Gopher] How to Make $80k per Month on the Apple App Store
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       How to Make $80k per Month on the Apple App Store
        
       Author : svenfaw
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-09-19 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | amelius wrote:
       | How many devs are ramen-profitable on the App Store versus how
       | many devs tried to be?
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       | I always have the suspicion that Apple wants us to believe that
       | the App Store can make _any_ honest, hard-working dev filthy
       | rich, when in reality you need to be extremely lucky to get more
       | money out of it than you put in.
        
       | ezy wrote:
       | The elephant in the room is that Apple _must already know_ this
       | is happening. It 's not like they need a viral blog article or a
       | user flag uprising to tell them this -- It's been obvious to most
       | technologically saavy users who own iphones -- and it must be 10x
       | as obvious to someone who works at Apple _on the actual App
       | Store_ . They 're just choosing to do nothing about it because
       | it's advantageous to them. Period. But what else is new when
       | large sums of money are involved...
        
         | the_only_law wrote:
         | Ofc stuff like this is allowed but when I have a clever idea
         | for a useful app its painfully made clear that it would never
         | get passed the guidelines.
        
         | raman162 wrote:
         | Yes but what pushes the knife further into the gut is how apple
         | claims it has a strict app review process to protect iOS users
         | when they have obviously done a poor job here. They were quick
         | to catch epic games bypassing their payment system but can't
         | catch a very obvious scam that made it to their top 10 grossing
         | app list.
        
           | civilized wrote:
           | Isn't that how they justify their ridiculous 30% cut? The
           | herculean effort they make to keep the app store safe? Looks
           | like what they actually do is give scammers all the tools
           | they need to maximize their audience.
        
       | librish wrote:
       | This seems like a really big counterpoint to the corner stone of
       | Apple's "30% is reasonable" take - that the App Store is a safe
       | and curated experience.
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       | It's one thing for a one off app to slip through, but to have it
       | make its way to the top charts with so many positive reviews is a
       | really, really bad look.
        
       | robertwt7 wrote:
       | How did they got through apple review process? Heck the review
       | process is super strict that I'm being very careful for iOS app
       | but these guys seems to know the way around it
        
       | fxtentacle wrote:
       | Scam tech illiterate people into an expensive subscription. Kind
       | of the same as all those "free" to play games.
        
         | raman162 wrote:
         | Well there are the two types of "free" to play games, the ones
         | that are malware and the ones that are "Pay" to win.
         | 
         | With the latter, I think people are mostly aware of how much
         | they spend in the "Pay" to win games even if it's just for
         | cosmetic items. The most common argument I hear is that it's no
         | different than spending $3.00 on a coffee or a snack and it
         | gives roughly the same amount of value, it's just a digital
         | asset.
        
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