Over $700k selling a premium mobile game
Despite getting very close to the best possible case for an iOS game (#1 on app store for a more than 0 days), am I the only one that is pretty dissapointed at how he was compensated? He didn't actually make $700k -- after Apple took theirs, and the gov't took theirs, he was left with ~$150K in his most successful year...I guess the freedom to do nothing while your app just rakes in money is great, but it seems like the probability of hitting this case is very low, and a stable job (though he would have possibly not liked the monotony) would have made him much more money.All this said, I'm about to strike out on my own with a one man LLC, so as others have said, this information is golden.[EDIT] - Many have pointed out that I missed the ~$280K that he gave to his partner (the content creator) -- so in his most successful year, he stood to make (had he been truly solo) ~$430K, which actually is pretty substantial, for a one time effort... But what is the probability of someone's iPhone game getting to #1 on the app store?