It would be a good idea for all voters to specify which platform brings them money, and if the money comes from ads or from selling apps. For me, it's Android, ad-based applications.
I'm around $150 a month with my android apps, Most of my apps are free with donation versions, but I just released my first paid only app 'POV Live Wallpaper' and curious to see what it will do ;)
Tim Bray's graph isn't of revenue against time, it's of revenue against rank (i.e., whether the app is the best, second-best, third-best, in terms of revenue).
I admit I grow tired of that kind of posts. Doesn't it depend on the app and how well you market it? It is already well known that you can earn a lot of money, but also not so much money, depending on your luck, effort and dedication.
I've had my one game app in the Android Market free and full for about 9 months now. Its making $400 a month now. $150 from actual sales $250 from ads. Only recently ad revenue makes more than sales and increasing. At the point when 50,000 users keep it on their devices is when ad revenue started making real money at around 20,000 impressions a day.
Wouldn't the median be a bit more useful? The highest selling apps will tend to skew the average upwards. The median would be more useful to determine what the average app creator might make.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 72.0 ms ] threadMy ad-supported app has been going through review for two months! Ouch.
All my apps https://market.android.com/developer?pub=Kudzu+Mobile