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Interesting analysis, but I'd like to see the numbers for apps that are actually maintained and marketed vs. some guy who hacked up an app and never fixed any bugs or improved it based on feedback. I suspect the number get better if you filter out the crappy unmaintained apps (but of course, this isn't an easy data set to obtain)

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I agree, there are a lot of apps that didn't take the developer more than 5 hours to put together. Earnings made by well made apps is probably much higher.

Yep, Half of all developers will earn less than $682 per year assumes the average developer produces 1 app. Also, most apps revenue falls off over time so a more realistic number is 80% 682 * 2 probably 1091$ in the first year and 272 in the second.

If someone is churning 20 in a month and then getting 1364$ * 20 = 27,280$ over two years for one months work that's not bad.

PS: The average app has probably only been out for 1 year so it may be reasonable to double these numbers. Basically, anything released yesterday is unlikely to have generated much revenue, averaging ALL apps over a 2 year earning period is silly.

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