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So as the say in Sunny Scotland 'pish'.",{"value":58,"source":52,"evidence":59},"Getting back to creative work; apps pay for overheads",[60],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"6984912","In a word, no. All that these apps have been doing (finically) is to pay for over heads. The most important thing for me is getting back on my creative horse this year, You'd…",[64,70,74],{"value":65,"source":52,"evidence":66},"Objective-C",[67],{"id":68,"by":11,"text":69},"6985059","Some of them, mostly I use Unity on the Me and the Giants(my kids games studio) games. I build my own engines to power my more quirky projects. 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I hope I can be this productive with my personal projects in 2014.",[100,115,120],{"value":101,"source":85,"evidence":102},"Many apps are low quality shovelware",[103,107,111],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"6985049","ido","Don't take this the wrong way, but please don't contribute to the flood of low quality apps in the app store(s) that serves to drown even the better apps out there. I know of a…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"6985408","pseudometa","Yes, they are \"low quality apps\"! Good luck ever getting featured by apple with one of these apps.",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"6984731","Malcx","That's a good output but a little disingenuous to say 22 when several are just various themes on the same engine. (E.g. 4 paint apps) Depending on your aim with these, next year…",{"value":116,"source":52,"evidence":117},"Small apps earn very little money",[118,119],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},{"value":121,"source":52,"evidence":122},"Weak marketing and discoverability",[123,126],{"id":124,"by":11,"text":125},"6984784","Yeah, I totally agree. Many failures in marketing this year. Weird thing is, PooBarr the pooping bear has some great reviews out there but it dosen't seem to catch peoples…",{"id":127,"by":11,"text":128},"6986273","That pretty cool! For small dev's like myself building a landing page is a pain but doable. What we dont have is spare cash so we end up putting something together ourselves. Our…",[130],{"value":131,"source":85,"evidence":132},"Share income statistics",[133],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"6984898","shuaib","Agreed. Dave, can you please share your income statistics if any. 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