Road To Riches Doesn't Run Through the App Store

Etienne Steward writes "Turns out that while a few fortunes can be made with Apple, Steve Demeter made most of his money by buying Palm (of all companies) at $1.76 and selling at $12. Apparently, there aren't as many iPhone App millionaires as we would like to be believe. From the article: 'In almost a dozen interviews conducted by NEWSWEEK, Apple consultants and programmers jettison the idea that the App Store is a world of easy opportunity, or a fast track to quitting the rat race. Instead they describe an anxiety-wracked marketplace full of bewildering rules, long odds, and little sense of control over one's success or failure. "It's kind of a crapshoot," says Demeter, who spent the last two weekends partying in Las Vegas and New York. "I think we've reached a point where people are thinking I shouldn't quit my day job for this."'"pa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/14/2015232/Road-To-Riches-Doesnt-Run-Through-the-App-Store?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/14/2015232"/a/ppa href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/14/2015232/Road-To-Riches-Doesnt-Run-Through-the-App-Store?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/65M3oaJs1WGCuz5gCWwUaMYaXyU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/65M3oaJs1WGCuz5gCWwUaMYaXyU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/65M3oaJs1WGCuz5gCWwUaMYaXyU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/65M3oaJs1WGCuz5gCWwUaMYaXyU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/ISP2vEw4g_8" height="1" width="1"/

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