We were making good money off our Jailbreak apps selling them for $10 a piece, some people liked them so much they donated over $80 a piece for them. We invested countless hours developing them, not only because it was a fun challenge, but because the support was there from our customers to be able to live off this and be able to develop them full time.
The reality is that we barely manage to match the money we were making with our Jailbreak applications through the App Store. Even at the peak so far, where “Record” was Top 10 paid downloads in 22 countries, and DuckShoot in 10 countries, sales barely reach those seen in Jailbreak.
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We were making good money off our Jailbreak apps selling them for $10 a piece, some people liked them so much they donated over $80 a piece for them. We invested countless hours developing them, not only because it was a fun challenge, but because the support was there from our customers to be able to live off this and be able to develop them full time.
The reality is that we barely manage to match the money we were making with our Jailbreak applications through the App Store. Even at the peak so far, where “Record” was Top 10 paid downloads in 22 countries, and DuckShoot in 10 countries, sales barely reach those seen in Jailbreak.