We’ve heard the woes of app developers waiting for payments, but at least there were payments. Newsweek claims in a sensational trend piece that the App Storegoldmine has dried out and some developers are barely getting by.

I’d seen the ”Look at the happy developers!” propaganda videos Apple produces, and I have to confess that I bought into them. Everyone just looks so happy and successful in Apple Land! But my feelings about iPhone app developers and Apple changed greatly over the past while: I went from being envious of the supposed overnight millionaires to realizing that perhaps some or even most may not be actually well off.

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