Yes, it's definitely luck. If there were a formula we'd all be doing it. You have to be the right person with the right idea in the right place at the right time to have a big winner on the Market or in business in general. When SimCity came out on the Mac and I was finishing the Amiga version a Newsweek reporter on vacation picked up the Mac version and decided to do a full page article about it in Newsweek. That was advertising that Maxis could never have afforded as a fledgling startup and who knows if the game would have been a success without that boost.
On May 26, 12:09 pm, DanH <danhi...@ieee.org> wrote: > Yeah, that's more or less what I said first, and the "legs" comment > was just an aside. To be successful as an independent developer, > selling your own stuff (even if you have Android and Amazon markets) > it a one in a million shot (literally). To put food on the table and > the kids through college you should either work for some company or > work as a contractor for other companies. (And for the latter you > need to be a pretty good salesman, with good people skills.) > > On May 26, 12:12 pm, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I think one point still stands, however. If you're looking for a Career > > (I.e. need to support family, kids, on a regular basis) doing anything > > speculative will probably end up being harder (or perhaps more stressful) > > than working at a firm and making a solid ~70-100k a year. To duplicate that > > you'd need to make ~$6k a month from the Android marker. Obviously this > > isn't undoable, there are very talented people working very hard and doing > > this. But if I had to take my bet solely on what would be more stable income > > wise, I'd have to say working at a firm might be better. > > > Now the exception: if you work developing multiple apps at once for several > > local companies you might be able to sustain this. I can imagine a local > > health care provider, cab coompany, etc would pay big bucks for applications > > that would make them more efficient or help them deliver better services, > > especially in mertopolitan areas. However, this is really more > > entreprenurship than some people like. Owning your own business like this > > takes time, and you don't spend nearly as much on development as if you work > > in a typical "9 to 5" software job (although those are becoming increasingly > > rare, schedules are flexible, and work isn't always at work....). > > > So can you make money as an Android developer? Of course... if you work hard > > you can do a lot! But, is it as feasible or stable as a typical software dev > > job? That depends on the type of person you are (static, dynamic, dependent, > > universally quantified, etc...), your mileage may vary... > > > Kris > > > On May 26, 2011 12:04 PM, "niko20" <nikolatesl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I've been with Android since around April 2009. And I can tell you > > that the first year *was* painful. Especially the first six months > > (April to September ish). However, it has matured to totally awesome > > now. I mean c'mon, OpenGL ES 2.0, NDK C++ support including STL, this > > list of great things you can do now is long, and it keeps growing. I > > think the android team has responded well to challenges, such as the > > issues with apps on sdcard, and now the coming 2Gb download for market > > assets. They continue to improve. I also make good money right now > > from my apps. If you aren't willing to put in the time, then yes, you > > aren't going to get much back out. Simple as that. You've been in the > > industry too long pretty much. Time to let go of some things. 40+ > > years of experience has made you stale, not "hey now I can predict the > > future". Nobody can predict the future, we work with what we have > > *right now*. Sounds to me like you are afraid to invest any time or > > energy into android. Well, that's your choice. Me, I think it's > > awesome that I can write apps that run on *my* phone. Before android > > such a thing was almost impossible for an indie developer to get into. > > > -nik > > > On May 25, 5:26 pm, Ali Chousein <ali.chous...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dan, you are looking from a very... > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
