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Buy every iPhone app for $144,326.06

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23 pointsdbachelder10 comments

Interesting statistic.

What might be interesting would be to categorize the apps and remove redundancies and see how much it would cost to gain all of the functionality of the collection of iphone apps. Probably 10-20% of the total cost.

Would there be a market for buying and selling ownership of iPhone apps? (Sort of like Sitepoint for iphone apps .. but more classy).

Good start-up ideas perhaps?

you've heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth from all the developers over how hard it is to work with the app store, i would imagine? yeah. apple would never allow a "used" iphone app ecosystem to spring up. no way.

What you learn from this is that iPhone apps has a ton of crap. I sincerely doubt all 1,600 apps by that one company have any quality

What you also learn is that this was a brilliant move by Apple. Outsource the development, reap the benefits. This was already known, but I would be interested to see how this these numbers stack up against Apple's internally developed applications (cost to produce, and revenue generated).

Not a brilliant move by Apple, remember that it was the community that asked for this, Apple didn't make a move, the community moved Apple to this direction, Apple wanted people to write webapps instead of using a SDK.

In my opinion Apple had an App Store planned out from the very beginning, and just hadn't finished the public APIs and SDK.

They have just a few apps (lilke iMapsPro) but sell different versions for different regions. I guess that's just a limitation on the App store, as they can't sell different regions within their app at the current price point ($0.99).

It looks like a clever idea. This way you can still use maps on vacation, without getting the roaming charges. It seems to be just a maps wrapper around Open Streetmaps.

The publishers with 1000s of apps make audiobooks where each book is a separate app. It's an artifact of the app store that content gets counted as apps.

Yeah, I was more interested with the developers making $1000+ off of just 2 or 3 apps. And it's funny, because looking at that software, it looks pretty shitty. Oh, the wonders of enterprises and the stupid amounts of money they'll spend on complete crap...

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