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Comment by mattmaroon | Hacker News Reader

Are you joking? The top Facebook apps make more in a month than the top iPhone apps make in a lifetime. Even mid level apps, the sort that would never make the top 25 on iTunes, make more in a year than a top 10 paid app on iTunes does.

Try Googling for Zynga Revenues. The Facebook platform is orders of magnitude more profitable than iPhone.

Don't mistake buzz for profitability.

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Matt, the more people think that Facebook apps don't make any money, the happier I think we'll both be. =)

Ha, true. If it weren't broadly available information that you almost had to close your eyes to miss I'd never mention it.

> Zynga

Don't get me started on my Mafia Wars addiction.

Do you pay for that crap though?

The game that can be (and is) played by a script.

World of Warcraft can also be played by a script. That hasn't hurt it's profitability or popularity.

Does World of Warcraft still make money? I thought everyone was on the iPhone all day now ;)

Do you have data that you could use to backup your post?

http://www.google.com/search?q=zynga+revenues

Thanks for the tip.

I can't up vote you enough. Almost tempted to create new HN accounts just to up vote you.

Why all the downvotes? (I don't mind downvoted, just curious about an explaination).

I would guess for the notion of creating another HN account to sockpuppet/additionally up-rate someone.

Whenever I get downvotes, I stop to consider whether or not my comment has added to the conversation. If I think it has, and I can't figure out why I got downvoted, I just move on.

Of course now I re-read all my comments right after I post them, so I tend to delete quite a few before voting happens either way.

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