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Survey: 20 Percent Of iOS Devs Earn 97 Percent Of App Store Revenue
The iPhone has been a boon to indie game development, providing developers with an inexpensive platform that reaches a massive audience. But is the opportunity that iOS offers optimistic developers just another Horatio Alger-worthy fantasy? A recent survey breaks down who's making money on Apple's platform, and who isn't.
Streaming Colour surveyed 252 iOS developers about their businesses, gleaming a variety of interesting insights into the Apple App Store. The author stresses that he makes no claims as to the statistical validity of the survey, so take the results with a grain of salt.
The results reveal that the top one percent of developers make 36 percent of the total iOS revenue, with the next 19 percent raking in 61 percent. That leaves the bottom 80 percent of iOS developers fighting for three percent of the total money made in the App Store.
In terms of lifetime revenue, 25 percent of developers reported making between $1,000 and $10,000 on the App Store. A lucky four percent have made over $1M, so pie-eyed start-ups can continue reaching for the sky. Check out the full results of the survey for more interesting insights.
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