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More to the point raised here, the Games and Entertainment categories are the largest by far and make up a full third of all sales on Apple's App Store. Mobile Device + Cool Software + Micro-Transactions = Brilliant!What's made the thing so successful is the same thing that made the web explode ten years ago: it's incredibly easy for good, but modestly sized programs to be built, published, and distributed to the folks who want them. The vast majority of those downloads (over 1.5B as of 21Jul) were small applications (primarily games) built by new developers who wrote code in their spare time. They had a good idea that the market wanted...and millionaires were, and continue to be, made overnight. What's particularly compelling now is the way the video game market as a whole is fairing in a down economy...it's growing1,2! Of course it's probably too much to say that any industry is truly recession-proof, but with most every other indicator down in the last 18 months, gaming - and particularly iPhone gaming which has EXPLODED since the app store's launch - is looking like a better and better place to put a few chips down. Where we come in...
You've got the Brain - (your brilliant game idea) We've got the Brawn - (the horsepower to see your game live) Today is a golden opportunity! |




Just in case you missed it, the iPhone platform is the biggest news in computing since the internet. In just over six months, the Apple iPhone store sold over 