fantastic for him, seriously... but a sad reflection of the state of the AppStore in regard to utility/quality. stories like this bring gold diggers out of the woodwork and pollute the store, imo.
not trying to be a pessimist here... just venting.
not trying to be a pessimist here... just venting.
As time goes on the marketplace will evolve, and an application like that would never be able to be priced at $2.99 or get the kind of attention that it did in the very early days. Apple could have potentially prevented this with a little more visibility and/or less heavy-handed control over Apps going public, but probably not by much.
It'll probably happen with the Android store, too, but now that people haven't learned it won't be quite so dramatic.
If this app made 30k, build a truly great app and retire.