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What's the analog here? XCode is free. What other complements to iPhone development can make money?

In the past I suggested that $200/hour contract iPhone programming might be more lucrative than entrepreneurial app development, but that doesn't quite fit the shovel analogy.

Maybe something that allows you to cross-deploy your app to a variety of mobile os's (adroid, iphone, etc) from the same code base?

The well-known indie mac app icon designers have more work than they can possibly do. They're mining the miners, so to speak.

Yes, but that was because nobody could institute a 30% tax on all sales of gold.

:)

yeah but in this case the shovels are being given for free (the SDK)... so that is out of the equation...