https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911728
People don't seem to understand that building a company 99 cents at a time isn't going to work. Real companies have overhead. Sure someone in the Ukraine might be doing great with $1000/month in revenue but that's not going to cut it for most people.
"building a company 99 cents at a time isn't going to work"
Except when it does. You could say the same thing about any price point.
From your earlier thread:
"It doesn't sound like the economics are there to build the next EA, id Software, etc."
Is Rovio not many times bigger than id software?
Of course if the mobile economics are so bad that the big players will invent vacuum cleaners to suck up all those crumbs, I'm toast...
A small business that makes enough for one or two people to survive is a perfectly valid goal, but it's not a "startup" as defined by pg and others.