Daniel Hruska To make $1 million thanks to the App Store, one has to create a great app that will be placed on the front ranks, you think. However, a certain John Hayward-Mayhew can lead you astray. This 25-year-old guy has flooded the App Store with more than 600 little-known apps in four years and is still going strong. To make matters worse, he can't even program.
Succeeding in the App Store jungle these days is pretty much a miracle. Even a team consisting of experienced programmers and graphic designers does not have to make a dent in the world with an excellent application. The same applies to games - even if they are pretty and playable, no one can guarantee that a sufficient number of users will find them in the App Store. Not even Apple can do it.
“Apple's search mechanism is not very good. That made me use a business model where I released 600 casual games rather than making one big one,” explains Hayward-Mayhew. He is not a person who would believe the fairy tales of miraculous riches thanks to a single application. Yes, of course there are such cases, but they are not many.
He released his first game in 2011, and since he couldn't code, he hired a programmer. He produced the desired result according to Hayward-Mayhew's instructions. The total earnings were only a few thousand dollars, but Hayward-Mayhew did not give up and continued to pursue his goal.
“The source code for the game was actually great, but no one wanted it. So I came up with the idea that I could just tweak the game's graphics and try again. I released about 10 games based on the same concept, which was when I started making money,” recalls Hayward-Mayhew.
Changing the game can look like, for example, replacing the Mario-style character with a BMX rider and adjusting the graphics of the game environment. “A few years back there was a short period of interest in games with teeth and dentists. I took one of my games and adapted it to this trend, which made quite a decent profit,” Hayward-Mayhew describes.
Many certainly do not agree with such flooding of the App Store. However, what is not forbidden is allowed. Hayward-Mayhew simply found a hole in the market and took advantage of it: "My attitude is that if I didn't do it, someone else would." All of his games can be downloaded from the App Store at Fun Cool Free.
and this is precisely the reason why Apple's search engine does not provide a search engine. But a person receives thousands of nonsense, installs dozens of them, sometimes buys something stupid before finding a game he likes or an app he wants. The reality is that most of the appstore is ballast and almost no one reviews it.
Exactly - it's surprising that few of us realize - that APPLE set up its store like this on purpose - and this business model obviously works great for him too! It is also surprising that most of us accept this about APPLE, but at the same time we criticize them for low-quality HW and OS - as if we still don't want to admit that APPLE is not about quality, but about money!! Yes, they care about money – that's all, and they will subordinate anything to it….
|that most of us accept this about APPLE, but at the same time we criticize them for low-quality HW and OS|
Seriously? I have yet to hear anyone cursing Apple's HW and OS. That is, only if the person in question has Android, but I understand there...
Phew, that's demagoguery. So, for example, I am not at all thrilled with iOS 8 and Mavericks, and according to the comments on the Internet, I am not at all alone. Sentences like Android, Windows is yuck just because it's not Apple, is a dogma that I've experienced several times in my 20 years around computers, and everyone who said that eventually started using the competition and in the same spirit burned their previous beloved brand.
Android as such is not a bad thing at all, or to be precise, it is the same system as iOS. If you deploy it correctly and debug it on the right HW, the result may even be better than iOS, which, after all, represents a few mobiles as well. The fact that it doesn't work out very often is mostly a matter of business people, who are willing to push through shit at any cost, just so it's out there and they can tick off a box in Excel. Take Samsung and its "glory". Just a few years ago it was the "darling of the android crowd" and today those same people can't even smell it.
And to make sure there is no mistake, we have an entire office built on Apple products, including routers, etc., and just because I use these devices every day, I know very well that it has its fair share of problems. However, I have no interest in leaving Apple just because one version of the OS failed. But the fact that I use something does not mean that I will be uncritically in a corkscrew and only when there are 5 versions in a row will I start thinking about what to do next.
what exactly do you have problems with in ios 8 and mavericks? (btw, yosemite has been out for almost a year, so try reinstalling, it will take you 30 minutes)... you have quite normal opinions, but I don't have the slightest problem with those systems (neither mavericks, nor yosemite, nor ios 8, 7), so that's why I'm asking, and I'm curious about the reason for the criticism of the latest versions of the systems. (fyi: I have been using Apple as a professional for more than 10 years, I have almost everything from them, and everything that I set up and install (sw, hw) just works, including archaic things like laptops from 2005, first unibody, first Apple TV, Apple capsules and I used SW from 10.1 puma until now...)
to the article: I don't know if I just want journalists to impose their opinion on us, but I have no problem with searching in the AppStore :). I'm just not hungry, and if I download something well, I buy it, I usually find out about it from various promotions, top categories and rebricks, articles, app of the week, app of the year, mention of the application in advertisements directly from Apple, I sometimes look what's trending, top 20 free/paid, etc. Searching in the appstore will never suit everyone, it's simply not possible. We have various magazines and internet diaries like jablickar.cz to look for and reviews, which will alert us to it. howgh :D
what exactly do you have problems with in ios 8 and mavericks? (btw, yosemite has been out for almost a year, so try reinstalling, it will take you 30 minutes)... you have quite normal opinions, but I don't have the slightest problem with those systems (neither mavericks, nor yosemite, nor ios 8, 7), so that's why I'm asking, and I'm curious about the reason for the criticism of the latest versions of the systems. (fyi: I have been using Apple as a professional for more than 10 years, I have almost everything from them, and everything that I set up and install (sw, hw) just works, including archaic things like laptops from 2005, first unibody, first Apple TV, Apple capsules and I used SW from 10.1 puma until now...)
to the article: I don't know if I just want journalists to impose their opinion on us, but I have no problem with searching in the AppStore :). I'm just not hungry, and if I download something well, I buy it, I usually find out about it from various promotions, top categories and rebricks, articles, app of the week, app of the year, mention of the application in advertisements directly from Apple, I sometimes look what's trending, top 20 free/paid, etc. Searching in the appstore will never suit everyone, it's simply not possible. We have various magazines and internet diaries like jablickar.cz to look for and reviews, which will alert us to it. howgh :D
I don't know what your experience is, but the AppStore returns money without problems for applications that do not do what they are supposed to do. Without proving that you actually deleted the app. But it is clear that for most people it is not worth it to advertise an application that costs one euro.