Survey Results - What would tempt you to write an app for an App Store?

Collin Jasnoch wrote:
If you refuse to try then you have already failed.

In that case I am a failed astronaut, a failed cross-Atlantic swimmer, and a failed top lingerie model.

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But I am not a failed Windows 8 developer because I have never even tried to develop for Windows 8. I would only be a failed Windows 8 developer if I had tried it and failed.

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Which, lets face it, isn't going to happen.

There are better products out there, there are less restrictive stores which demand a far lower percentage of the price.

And I am not about to cough up for Apple "products" on the off-chance that investing a significant amount of work in learning to code for it and pass the (by all reports rather arbitrary) Apple scrutineering in order to make more money for them than I do for me.

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

I don't think they said anything about Apple. Just "an App Store". Cause if it was for Apple's app store, I would have had an expletive in front of my NO.

Hogan

Looks like a challenge, which sounds like fun and gives you experience which looks good on your resume Big Grin | :-D

It's an OO world.

C#

public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
    public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

My boss must know what he's doing, so there would not be much of a discussion about it. Personally. I would not think it's worth my time.

The company behind the store wants a generous share of 30% of whatever I get for the program. And that's before the government comes and wants to have about 50% of my income. It would be kind of desperate to have to live from pennies.

And there would also be the risk of doing all the development, only to find your work being rejected in a more or less obscure reviewing process.

Thanks, but I think I will pass on this generous offer.

Option	Votes	%
The money	631	59.03
The fame	174	16.28
The experience	615	57.53
To help provide a product you see as being needed	308	28.81
Because it looks good on your resume	247	23.11
Because it looks like fun	315	29.47
The challenge	482	45.09
Because you've been told you have to	130	12.16
Other	54	5.05
Responses	1,069
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%