In today's capitalist America, it's all about innovation, opportunity, and money. A big trend thats flourished in the last 5 years is phone and tablet applications. From Angry Birds to Candy Crush, and Flappy Bird to Snapchat, applications are the big thing. If you can create a good app, you could be making more money than you could ever imagine. Angry Birds at one point was probably the most popular mobile game on the market, pulling in around $6,000 a day, or about $2,190,000 a year, but recently, the king of the app market is, well, King. Their star game Candy Crush rakes in around $875,000 per day! Thats about $319,375,000 annually! All this money is made off of a little mobile application that only requires a computer and some simple coding, but all this simplicity can be turned into millions. A great example of simple is Dong Nguyen's Flappy Bird app. This app took modern day interests and put an old fashion spin on things, reverting it back to the graphics of the old Mario games.The only thing you do in Flappy Bird is tap the screen and get a little yellow bird through a series of pipes, and this made Nguyen over $50,000 a day. So, if you ever have a good application idea, make it happen! It could be worth more than you think.
Thanks. This topic really makes me want to learn how to develop mobile apps!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe the whole Flappy bird obsession. Phones are selling for hundreds of dollars with flappy bird on them. My son wants to develop apps when he grows up. Sounds like a lucrative business.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree! There's a crazy amount of potential in the mobile app market. If your son can come up with the next big craze, he could be making some big bucks!
DeleteMobile apps is definitely where the money is right now in the video game industry because there are so many independent developers right now, and mobile gaming is where you're going to get people. Think back to the Nokia NGage and how ridiculous people thought it was. Playing games on their cell phone, why would you do such a crazy thing? They were pioneers!
ReplyDeleteKing.com is in trouble though as well as upset as they are in a trademark dispute for copying off of games.
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