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utnick on Sept 19, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: This Is Why iPhone Developers Put Up With All the ...

It might be like facebook apps at the begginning, they were new and cool so alot of people browsed the app directory and since there were few apps, new apps could be noticed and grew

As the app store grows, it might be much harder if your app is buried in the app store somewhere to draw these kinds of sales.

But maybe the app store will accomodate this somehow.

pxlpshr on Sept 19, 2008 [–]

While there is a lot of clutter on the app store with Tip calculators and so forth, there is a sharp difference between fB and iPhone platforms.

to develop for Facebook, you can use anything. to develop for the iPhone, you need a Mac.

That said, let's compare PC vs. Mac market share. :)

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