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You're forgetting all the money that we had to spend on marketing.


The marketing picture hasn't changed for 99.999% of developers. Unless you're fortunate to get featured by Apple, you still have to do all the work yourself.


So nobody who has an app in an app store has to advertise anymore? I see advertisements for Wix all day long on Bloomberg TV, perhaps someone should tell them that they should have just put an app in Apple's store.




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