Thread: How can we encourage iPhone developers to develop on Maemo?
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2009-08-14 , 18:09
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Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
Yes, that's absolutely true and that "only 15-20% / 2" is already enough to massively hurt developers on the app store to the point of them closing up shop - something I'm very personally worried about at this very moment.
In February of this year, Cydia estimated the number of jailbroken phones to be appox 450,000 - not 'millions'.

That would bring the percentage to approx 5-10% which I see as much more realistic. Not everyone out there is 'like us' and the VAST majority of iPhone users are either a) content with the device as it is and/or b) lack the skill/courage to jailbreak it.

So, taken the assumption above that half of those users pirate software (2.5-5%) I can't see how this percentage out of such an enormous user-base is enough to 'massively hurt' developers.

It's also not as if those 2.5-5% of users would had been 100% committed to purchase application X anyway. Say 1/3 of them would. Now we're talking about, what, a 2%ish drop in revenue.

Jailbreaking is overstated as a reason to applications not selling. The main reason is that the majority of all apps developed for the iPhone is shite and should't be sold at a cost to begin with :-D
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